★ Extremely Rare ★

No Reserve

Agrippa Ӕ "Sestertius" of Gades, Hispania. Struck under Augustus, circa 27-12 BC. Head of Hercules-Melqart to left, wearing lion skin headdress; club over shoulder / M AGRIPPA COS III MVNICIPI PARN, aplustre. RPC I 78 (same dies as illustration); ACIP 3308 (same dies as illustration); Alfaro Asins 3179-80. 37.47g, 37mm, 5h.

Very Fine; typical test cut(?) to obv. Extremely Rare; just four specimens cited by RPC Online and a further three found on CoinArchives.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 39, 26 August 2017, lot 2 (hammer: 1,800 GBP).

A. Guadàn contends that the marks located on the obverses of all known examples of this issue, at first glance mere test cuts, may in fact be evidence of 'denominational revaluation'. See p. 18 of 'Las monedas de Gades' (Barcelona, 1963) for further deliberations.