When this little beauty was listed on Vcoins last week I snapped it up right away. I love the idea of collecting coins of famous Romans without having to leave the Flavian era. Agrippa, Restored by Titus Æ As, 9.95g Rome mint, 80 -81 AD Obv: M AGRIPPA L F COS III; Head of Agrippa with rostral crown, l. Rev: IMP T VESP AVG REST; S C in field; Neptune stg. l., with dolphin and trident RIC 470 (C2). BMC 281. BNC 289. Acquired from Ken Dorney, May 2021. Titus struck an extensive restoration series of bronze coins of Flavian approved past emperors and imperial family members which reproduced the original coins in their entirety. While this veneration of past coinages was not a new idea (Vespasian copied past types on many reverses for the precious metal issues) it was quite an innovation to copy both the obverse and reverse of these past coinages. To do so likely had a dual purpose - one, to recoin types that were being recalled or falling out of circulation and to keep their memory alive, and secondly to link the Flavian house with those past revered personages. This As struck by Titus for M. Agrippa, faithfully copies both obverse and reverse of a famous type originally struck by Tiberius and Caligula. Neptune was a most appropriate reverse for Augustus's naval commander at the Battle of Actium. Please post your coins of M. Agrippa!
So cool! It even has the T VESP on the reverse Here are a couple coins of the REAL defeater of Marc Antony:
I'll add an OG Agrippa. Here's my humble Neptune standing example: Agrippa, 18-12 BC. Roman Æ as, 10.35 g, 27.3 mm, 7 h. Rome, under Caligula, AD 37-41. Obv: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head left, wearing rostral crown. Rev: S - C, Neptune standing left, holding small dolphin and trident. Refs: RIC 58 (Caligula); BMCRE 161 (Tiberius); RCV 1812; Cohen 3 (Agrippa); CBN 77.
A great coin; I really like the portrait. Here are my two Agrippa coins: Augustus AE (Brass) Dupondius, 9-3 BCE, Colonia Augusta Nemausus [Nîmes] (Galla Narbonensis province) Mint. Obv. Heads of Agrippa left and Augustus right, back to back, with Agrippa wearing combined laurel wreath and rostral crown, and Augustus wearing oak wreath, IMP above heads and DIVI F below [Imperator Divi Filius] / Rev. Crocodile right standing on two palm branches, chained to palm-shoot standing behind it, with tip of shoot leaning to right; wreath above and to left of palm-shoot, with long ties extending behind shoot to right, COL - NEM to left and right of palm-shoot. “Type III” of Augustus & Agrippa/Crocodile coin (see https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04). RIC I 158 (p. 52), RPC I 524 (see https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&number=524), Sear Greek Imperial Coins 157 (D. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values (1982)], Sear RCV I 1730 (ill.). [See Sear RCV I at p. 337: Commemorates conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE; influenced by Augustus’s settlement of veterans of Egyptian campaign in Nemausus after colony was founded in 27 BCE.] 28 mm., 12.09 g. Agrippa (d. 12 BCE), AE As, Memorial issue struck by Caligula, 37-41 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Head of Agrippa left, wearing rostral crown, M AGRIPPA L - F COS III / Rev. Neptune standing left, holding trident in left hand; dolphin resting left on his right forearm; S - C on either side of Neptune. RIC I Caligula [Gaius] 58, Sear RCV I 1812, Cohen Agrippa 3. 31 mm., 11.0 g.
AGRIPPA RI Agrippa AE As 28mm 11g Neptune-S-C Left RI Augustus oak crown Agrippa rostral crown L AE Dupondius 26mm 12.6g Type III 9-3 BCE Nemausus chained Croc wreaths RIC I 158
Question: if some of these coins are reproductions of earlier issues, how does one tell the difference between them?
Agrippa, but not a Restitution type: Agrippa. Died 12 BC. Æ As (28mm; 10.38gm; 6h). Struck under Gaius Caligula, 37-41 AD. Obv: M • AGRIPPA • L • F • COS • III •; Agrippa's head left, wearing rostral crown. Rev: S-C across field, Neptune standing left, holding small dolphin in right hand and trident in his left. RIC I 58 (Gaius); BMCRE 161 (Tiberius); Cohen 3.
Very nice David. Here's an Agrippa you don't see every day: Augustus & Agrippa by C. Sulpicius Platorinus CAESAR AVGVSTVS bare head right C SVLPICIVS PLATORIN Augustus and Agrippa, both togate, seated half l. on bisellium set on platform ornamented with rostra. On l., staff upright. 3.72g Rome 13 BC RSC 529, RIC 407, Sear 1599 Repaired Flan crack Ex-ANE,
