Augustus and Agrippa Æ As of Nemausus, Gaul. Circa AD 10-14. Heads of Agrippa and Augustus back to back, Agrippa wearing rostral crown and laurel wreath, facing left, Augustus laureate, facing right; IMP above, DIVI F below, P P across lower fields / Chained crocodile right, palm frond upwards in centre, wreath to left of palm tip with long ties trailing to right; COL NEM across fields. RPC 525; RIC 159. 12.52g, 27mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From a private European Collection.
This issue, of both the as denomination seen here and the dupondius, was struck to commemorate the defeat of Marc Antony at the Battle of Actium.