Agrippa - As under Caligula, Neptune & Trident, Rome

Struck at Rome, AD 37–41, under the emperor Gaius, better known as Caligula. Agrippa never ruled, but this coin exists because of family: he was Caligula's grandfather. His daughter Agrippina the Elder married Germanicus, and their son was Caligula, who on his accession issued a series of coins honoring his ancestors - and this As commemorating Agrippa, the general and right hand of Augustus who won the naval battles of Naulochus and Actium and built Rome's first Pantheon. The portrait wears the corona rostrata, the rostral crown awarded for victory at sea, and the legend M AGRIPPA L F COS III records his third consulship of 27 BC.

The reverse carries no legend beyond S C - Senatus Consulto, "by decree of the Senate," the standard mark of Rome's bronze coinage. Neptune stands left, cloaked, holding a small dolphin and a vertical trident: the sea-god as a tribute to the admiral whose fleets ended the civil wars. The type made the Agrippa As one of the most recognizable bronzes of the early empire, struck in vast numbers and circulating for generations.

Attribution: RIC I (Gaius) 58 · RCV 1812

Mint: Rome

Weight: 10.53 g

Diameter: 25 mm

Catalogued in the NumisLens cabinet - NL-9NCHG-Q83VV

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