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Outstanding Portraits
Lot # 437
Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD) with Agrippa. AE As. Nemausus mint. Struck circa 9/8-3 BC. Obv. IMP DIVI F. Heads of Agrippa left, wearing rostral crown and laurel wreath, and Augustus right, wearing oak wreath, back to back. 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; SNG Cop. 699. AE. 13.16 g. 25.50 mm. Pleasing style. Orichalcum surfaces. Metal flaw on reverse. EF/VF. The types commemorate the victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra and capture of Egypt by Augustus and Agrippa.