Augustus and Agrippa Crocodile AE

I have been wanting one of these for quite some time. It must have just been listed on VCOINS a few minutes ago and I snapped it up. I it has very nice eye appeal to me and the price was very fair.

Sellers description and picture follows:

Augustus and Agrippa (27 BC-AD 14), Gaul, Nemausus, As, c. 9/8-3 BC, 12.15g, 26mm. Heads of Agrippa left, wearing rostral crown and laurel wreath, and Augustus right, wearing oak wreath, back to back / Crocodile right chained to palm frond with short fronds; wreath with long ties above, palms fronds below. RPC I 524 corr. (Augustus with laurel wreath); RIC I 158. About Very fine, possibly repatinated.

 

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Nice, sharp details, congrats!!

 

A great example

 

That's a very nice example @alde. The neck chain is still visible.

 

That's a terrific example, @alde! The centering is much better than usual. The crocs are usually larger than the flans and it's nice that yours shows the whole snout. Great detail on the portraits too!

 

Great score! I've been wanting one of these as well.

 

That is far nicer than most and missing the usual faults so common to the series that led me to posting my page on the type calling them impossible to grade.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html

I found these hard to resist for a while and gathered a set of variations. Be careful that it does not happen to you.

 

Well done @alde ! Great example, great color, well centered, COOL! I love this design...

I got one last year:


RI Augustus oak crown -Agrippa rostral crown L AE Dupondius 26mm 12.6g 10-14 CE Nemausus chained Croc wreaths RIC I 158

 

Great portraits, great crocodile, very good catch

My 1.5 own examples


Augustus & Agrippa, AE halved dupondius struck in Nemausus, after 10 BC
3rd type
[IM]P [DI]VI F , Laureate head of Augustus right
[COL NEM], Crocodile chained to palm tree
6.70 gr
Ref : RCV #1730, Cohen # 10



Augustus & Agrippa, AE Dupondius struck in Nemausus, after 10 AD
4th type
IMP DIVI F PP, Laureate heads of Augustus and Agrippa back to back
COL NEM, Crocodile chained to palm tree
12.84 gr
Ref : RCV #1731, Cohen #8

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That AS is probably the best I have seen!!!

I love that cut Dupondius, amazing that the cut matched the obv/rev dies so well!

 

After seeing the one you posted I want one so I'll be on the lookout for one as nice as yours.

 

Nice coin & excellent croc! On coins of my collecting period (RR), Octavian's head is smaller. On yours he is the alpha, & has a larger head.

The only croc I have is on a pic in my office -

with some advice from a friend to follow the wildebeest migration strategy when dealing with a difficult boss:
"cross in mass and most of you will make it"

 

Nice one alde, I agree with Tif and Doug these coins are hard to find with everything right, this one of mine was bought because I wanted a portrait of Agrippa, as you can see Augustus is off flan, but yours is well centred.

 

Nice coins everyone. I love the fact that it does such a great job telling it's story. I can see where it was good propaganda at the time. I also like the variety. I want one with the teeth in the upper jaw pointing up. I wonder what the die envraver was thinking?

 

Woohoo! I can contribute.

Here's mine (seller's pics):



Erin

 

That is a great example alde! I really do love this type and yours is better than most I've seen. Congrats!

(I wonder how many coins I've missed on Vcoins because I wasn't checking it often enough!)

 

David, I was only there a half hour before and it wasn't there yet. It's just a matter of luck I'm sure.

 

As always HIGH quality stuff

 

Handsome croc coin, @alde! Nice to see so many different ones in this thread. I picked up this specimen with a horned snout last year.

 

WOW !! So many exceptional examples from the OP right down to my far more modest pick-up. I just grabbed my example the other day....but it goes well with my cut 'half-as' specimen that was always screaming for company LOL