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Augustus and Agrippa AS - crocodile halved As interesting, added a quartered As from Narbonne! (N2221)

Augustus and Agrippa AS - crocodile halved As interesting, added a quartered As from Narbonne!  (N2221)
Augustus and Agrippa AS - crocodile halved As interesting, added a quartered As from Narbonne!  (N2221)
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Augustus and Agrippa AS - crocodile halved As interesting, added a quartered As from Narbonne!  (N2221)
Augustus and Agrippa AS - crocodile halved As interesting, added a quartered As from Narbonne!  (N2221)
Augustus and Agrippa AS - crocodile halved As interesting, added a quartered As from Narbonne! (N2221)
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  • Model: Crocodile Augustus Agrippa half as
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 GAUL. Nemausus. Augustus and Agrippa. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Halved As (26 mm - 6,01 g). Struck 10-14 AD. Back to back heads of Agrippa, wearing combined rostral crown and laurel wreath, and  [Augustus, wearing laurel wreath;] / Crocodile right, chained to palm frond with wreath at top; two palm fronds at base. extremely fine

Clear portrait of Agrippa. Nemausus (now Nîmes) was a colony Octavian/Augustus set up for his veterans from the civil war against Antony and Cleopatra. They would have appreciated the presence of the great general Agrippa on this coin; the chained crocodile on the reverse represents a captured Egypt. The veterans also apparently suffered from a lack of small change, as many of these coins are found halved.


Iberia, Neronken Quarted As. Early 1st century BC. Veiled female head to right; 'EI' below chin / Bull charging to right; wreath above, pellet below head, 'NERONKEN' (in Iberian script) below. ACIP 2692; SNG BM Spain 1782-4; CNH 2. 2,47 g, 19 mm, Very Fine. Narbonne in Gallia Narbonnensis. Mont-Laurès