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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 130

Agrippa I (A.D. 37-44), AE, Caesarea Panias, year 5 = c. AD 40-41, laureate head of Gaius left, rev. Germanicus in triumphal quadriga right, le in exergue (Burnett, "The Coinage of King Agrippa I of Judaea", Mélanges Bastien, p. 28, 4; Hendin 74 or 549; RPC 4976), dark green patina, fine Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 This coin, issued for for the King of Judaea, Herod Agrippa I, is especially famous. King of Judaea, he was called Agrippa on the coinage, but Herod in the Bible. Raised in Rome in a circle of friends including Drusus and the emperor-to-be Claudius. After he had been imprisoned in A.D. 36 during Tiberius´ reign, he was released by Agrippa who appointed him as Tetrarch in the East. Unusually, it is very close to Caligula´s Imperial coinages: the portrait is similar to those of coins struck in Rome and Lugdunum, and the reverse is copied from dupondii issued at Rome in honour of Germanicus, Caligula´s father. Anyhow, the legends differ, being in Greek on the present coin: instead of reading Germanicus caesar, it is inscribed Money of King Agrippa with the date in exergue.

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