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Outstanding Nemausus
Lot # 411
Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD) with Agrippa. AE As, Nemausus mint, c. 16 -10 BC. Obv. Heads of Agrippa, wearing combined rostral crown and laurel wreath, to left and Augustus, laureate, to right, back to back; IMP above, DIVI F below. Rev. Crocodile right, chained to palm with wreath at top; two palm branches at base; COL NEM across field. RIC I (2nd ed.) 158; RPC I 524. AE. 10.34 g. 25.00 mm. A superb example. Enchanting untouched bright olive green-brown patina. Rare as such. Usual light graffiti on obverse and reverse left fields, otherwise. EF. The types commemorate the victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra and capture of Egypt by Augustus and Agrippa.