Details
LOT 3596
Agrippa AE As. AD 37-41. Rome mint.
M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head to left, wearing rostral crown / Neptune standing to left, holding small dolphin and trident; S C across fields. RIC I 58 (Gaius); Cohen 3; BMCRE 161 (Tiberius). Near Very Fine.(10.57gr, 28mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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