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Auction 13  6 April 2017
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Lot 376

Estimate: 700 USD
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Agrippa II for Vespasian . 69-79 AD. AE 28, 18.26g (11h). Agrippa's year 14 = 73/4 AD. Obv: AVTOKPA OVECΠA - CI KAICAPI CBACTΩ. (sic) Head of Vespasian laureate right. Rx: ET ΔI - BA / AΓPI - ΠΠA ("Year 14 of King Agrippa") in two lines across field, Tyche standing left holding two wheat ears and cornucopia. RPC 2243 (5 spec.). Hendin 1301 corr. Sofaer Coll. 184, pl. 214. From the Bill Behnen Collection, exceptionally not reign of Decius; acquired from Holyland Numismatics on an unrecorded date. E omitted from CEBACTΩ in obverse legend by engraver's error. Very rare with this type and date. RPC lists just five examples, and reports that all five come from the same obverse die, illustrated on pl. 97. Two additional specimens, ours and Sofaer 184, were also struck from that same obverse die.
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