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Philip, 4 BCE-34. Æ-17 mm, year 34=30/31, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 4,87 g.

[ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ] Laureate head of Tiberius to r., laurel branch in r. field//[ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΤΕΤΡΑΡΧ]ΟΥ ΚΤΙΣ around the facade of a temple with four columns at the front, between the columns L - Λ - Δ. Hendin no. 1230; Meshorer, Treasury 229 no. 106; RPC I no. 4948.

Very good/fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 146.

Philip, 4 BCE-34. Æ-20 mm, year 37=33/34, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 6,44 g.

ΤΙΒ?ΡΙΟC C?BACTOC KAICAP around laureate head of Tiberius to r.//ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΤEΤΡΑΡΧΟΥ around the facade of a temple with four columns at the front, between the columns L – Λ – Ζ. Hendin no. 1233; Meshorer, Treasury 230 no. 109; RPC I no. 4952.

Very rare. Nearly very fine/very fine Overbeck – Meshorer no. 147.

Philip, 4 BCE-34. Æ-20 mm, year 37=33/34, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 5,26 g.

ΤΙΒ?ΡΙΟC C?BACTOC KAICAP around laureate head of Tiberius to r.//ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΤEΤΡΑΡΧΟΥ around the facade of a temple with four columns at the front, between the columns L – Λ – Ζ. Hendin no. 1233; Meshorer, Treasury 230 no. 109; RPC I no. 4952.

Very rare. Fine/good fine Overbeck – Meshorer no. 148.

Agrippa I, 37-44. Middle Bronze, year 2=37/38, Caesarea Paneas; 5,84 g.

[ΒΑCΙΛΕΩC-ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑC] Diademed head of Agrippa I to r.//[ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ ΥΙΟΥ ΒΑCΙΛΕΩC] Agrippa II on horseback r., below [L B]. Hendin no. 1237; Meshorer, Treasury 230 no. 113; RPC I 4974.

Very rare. Corroded and cleaned, very good

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 149.

 

Agrippa I, 37-44. Middle Bronze, year 5=40/41, Caesarea Paneas; 10,17 g.

[ΓΑΙΩ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΩ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΩ] Laureate head of Caligula to l.//[N]OM[ΙΣΜΑ]/ΒΑΣΙΛ[ΕΩΣ]/ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ Germanicus in triumphal quadriga to r., holding sceptre; below, LE. Hendin no. 1240; Meshorer, Treasury 230 no. 116; RPC 4976.

Very good/fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 150.

Agrippa I, 37-44. Æ-Prutah, year 6=41/2, Jerusalem; 2,69 g.

BACIΛ?WC AΓΡΙΠΑ around a baldachin with fringes//Three ears of corn, flanked by L - ς. Hendin no. 1244; Lykke 245 fig. 78; Meshorer, Treasury 231 no. 120; RPC I no. 4981.

Very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 156.

Lykke 100 is right when she annotates that the baldachin/canopy traces back to the Assyrian kings and that in the case of Agrippa it may underline his royal dignity. At any rate, 'the unusual motif does not seem to find any immediate parallels anywhere else'. In the Greek world baldachins were used to cover altars and the statuettes of gods, cf. W. Held, Wo stand die Hera von Samos?, IstMitt 45, 1995, 13-23, esp. 20 and M. Weber, Baldachine und Statuenschreine, Rom 1990.

Agrippa I, 37-44. Æ-Prutah, year 6=41/2, Jerusalem; 2,95 g.

BACIΛ?WC AΓΡΙΠΑ around a baldachin with fringes//Three ears of corn, flanked by L - ς. Hendin no. 1244; Lykke 245 fig. 78; Meshorer, Treasury 231 no. 120; RPC I no. 4981.

Very fine Overbeck – Meshorer no. 157.

Agrippa I, 37-44. Large Bronze, year 7=42/43, Caesarea maritima; 15,98 g.

ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΣ [ΚΑΙΣΑΡ Σ]ΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ [ΓΕΡΜ]ANI Laureate head of Tiberius to r.//[ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΓΡ]ΙΠΠΑΣ ΦΙΛΟ[ΚΑΙΣΑΡ] Distyle temple; within the temple, two figures standing facing each other and holding patera over victimarius kneeling l.; in the background, a fourth person; LZ in the pediment of the temple. Hendin no. 1245; Meshorer, Treasury 232 no. 121.

Fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 153.

Agrippa I, 37-44. Middle Bronze, year 7=42/43, Caesarea maritima; 9,11 g.

[BA]ΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΜΕΓΑ[Σ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ ΦΙΛΟΚΑΙΣΑΡ] Diademed, draped bust of Agrippa I to r., countermark on the face//ΚΑΙΣΑ[ΡΙΑ Η ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩ] ΛΙΜ[EΝΙ] Tyche standing l., holding rudder with her outstretched r. hand and palm frond in her l. hand; in the field, LZ. Hendin no. 1246; Meshorer, Treasury 232 no. 122; RPC I. no. 4985.

Very rare. Fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 152.

Agrippa I, 37-44. Æ-medaillon, year 7 or 8=42-44, Caesarea maritima; 15,9 g.

BAC AΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ – ΣΕΒ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ – ΒΑΣ ΗΡΩΔΗΣ king Agrippa, standing on the left side, and his brother and son in law, king Herod of Chalkis, standing on the right side, crowning the Roman emperor Claudius with a wreath. Agrippa and Herod are clad in military dresses, Claudius wears a toga and is sacrificing capite velato (with covered head); in exergue [L Z or H] (year 7 or 8)//[OPKIA BAΣ ΜΕ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ ΠΡ ΣΕΒ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΑ Κ ΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΟΝ] Κ ΔΗΜΟ ΡΩΜ ΦΙΛΙ Κ ΣΥΜΜΑΧΙ ΑΥ. [?ρκια βασ(ιλ?ως) με(γ?λου) ?γρ?ππα πρ(?ς) Σεβ(αστ?ν) Κα?σαρα κ(α?) Σ?νκλητον] κ(α?) Δ?μ(ον) ?ωμ(α?ων) φιλ?(ας) κ(α?) συμμαχ?(ας) α?(το?). (Oaths taken by the Great King Agrippas before the Augustus Caesar and the Senate and Roman People with regard to friendship and alliance) in two concentric circles divided by a wreath; clasped right hands in centre. Hendin no. 1248; A.J.M. Kropp, Crowning the Emperor: an unorthodox image of Claudius, Agrippa I and Herod of Chalkis, Syria 90, 2013, 377-389; Lykke 246 fig. 82; Meshorer, Treasury 100 f. and 232 no. 124; RPC I no. 4982.

Extremely rare and despite the corrosion in above average condition. Partially corroded, otherwise good very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 151.

The authority which issued this medaillon is not mentioned, what is very unusual in the case of circulation coins. It was apparently minted in the last year of Agrippa’s reign, when his brother Herod had already been established as king of Chalkis. Due to the two dates given in the exergue of the medaillons (L Z = 42/3 and L H = 43/4) the background of the scenery depicted on them becomes obvious and seems in no way strange. The coin shows that the two royal brothers Agrippa and Herod had sent golden wreaths (aurum coronarium) to Claudius because of his victory over the British tribes in South and Middle England, perhaps on the occasion of his triumph De Britannis. The rev. of the medaillon seems to underline that Agrippa I as a friend and ally of the Romans had sent some Jewish troops to support the conquest of Britannia.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Æ-half denomination, year 13=52/53, Tiberias; 5,75 g.

KΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ – ΚΑΙCAPOC around a palm frond, in the fields L – IΓ (Year 13 of Claudius Caesar)//TIB? / PIAC within a wreath. Hendin no. 1267; Meshorer, Treasury 261 no. 348; RPC I no. 4852.

Nearly very fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 162.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Æ-full denomination, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi/Neronias; 11,68 g.

NEΡΩΝ ΚΑΙCΑΡ CΕΒΑCΤΟC (nearly totally abraded) laureate head of Nero to r.//EΠΙ / ΒΑΣΙΛΕ / ΑΓΡΙΠΠ / ΝΕΡΩ / ΝΙΕ (?π? βασιλ?(ως) ?γρ?ππ(α) Νερωνι?(ων), under the reign of king Agrippa, [coin] of the citizens of Neronias) within a wreath. Hendin no. 1273; Lykke 247 fig. 88; Meshorer, Treasury 233 no. 129; RPC I no. 4988.

Fine/good fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 163.

The perhaps hellenistic foundation of Panias – named after a sacred cave of the god Pan – was refounded by Herod the Great’s son Philipp as Caesarea Philippi. In the time of Nero the city adopted the name of Neronias, cf. G.M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria ..., Berkeley/Los Angeles/London 2006, 264 f., Lykke 113, and Meshorer, Treasury, 105 who dates these coins in the time after the outbreak of the Great Revolt. Lykke 112 annotates that Caesarea Paneas was Agrippa II’s main mint.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Æ-half denomination, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi/Neronias; 5,89 g.

NEΡΩΝ – ΚΑΙCΑΡ CΕΒ laureate head of Nero to r.//EΠΙ / ΒΑΣΙΛΕ / ΑΓΡΙΠΠ / ΝΕΡΩ / NΙΕ (?π? βασιλ?(ως) ?γρ?ππ(α) Νερωνι?(ων), under the reign of king Agrippa, [coin] of the citizens of Neronias) within a wreath. Hendin no. 1274; Meshorer, Treasury 233 no. 130; RPC I no. 4989.

Good fine Overbeck – Meshorer no. 164.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Æ-quarter denomination, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi/Neronias; 2,88 g.

[NEΡΩΝ – ΚΑΙCΑΡ CΕΒ] laureate head of Nero to r.//EΠΙ / ΒΑΣΙΛΕ / ΑΓΡΙΠΠ / ΝΕΡΩ / NΙΕ (?π? βασιλ?(ως) ?γρ?ππ(α) Νερωνι?(ων), under the reign of king Agrippa, [coin] of the citizens of Neronias) within a wreath. Hendin no. 1275; Meshorer, Treasury 233 no. 131; RPC I no. 4990.

 

Fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 165.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Large bronze, year 14=73/74, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 13,6 g.

AYTOKPA OYECΠΑCI KAICAP CEBACTΩ laureate bust of Vespasian to r.//Fecunditas/Tyche standing to l., holding ears of corn in her outstretched r. hand, a cornucopia in her l. arm; in the fields LIΔ – ΒΑCI / AΓΡΙ - ΠOY. Hendin no. 1301a; Meshorer, Treasury 234 no. 136; RPC II no. 2244.2 (this coin).

 

Fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 166.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Middle bronze, year 14=73/4, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 11,24 g.

AVTOKP TITOC – KAICAP CEB around laureate head of Titus to r.//Winged Victoria/Nike advancing to r., holding a wreath in her outstretched r. hand, a shouldered palm with her l. hand; in the fields L IΔ – BAC / AΓΡ - IΠΟY. Hendin no. 1303; Lykke 248 fig. 91; Meshorer, Treasury 234 no. 138; RPC II no. 2248.4 (this coin).

Fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 168.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Middle bronze, year 14=73/4, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 10,71 g.

AYTOKP TITO-C KAIC CEB around laureate head of Titus to r.//Winged Victoria/Nike advancing to r., holding a wreath in her outstretched r. hand, a shouldered palm with her l. hand; in the fields L IΔ – BAC / ΑΓΡ - ΙΠΠ. Hendin no. 1303 (who links this coin with Caesarea Maritima); Lykke 248 fig. 91; Meshorer, Treasury 234 no. 138b; RPC II no. 2249.2 (this coin).

Very fine/nearly very fine.

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 167.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Middle bronze, year 14=73/4, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 6,35 g.

ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ - ΚΑΙCAP Laureate head of Domitian to r.//LΙΔ - BACI / ΑΓ - ΡΙΠΟ / Υ Winged Victoria/Nike standing to l., foot on helmet, writing on shield which rests on her l. knee. Hendin no. 1304; Meshorer, Treasury 234 no. 139; RPC I no. 2250.2 (this coin).

Fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 170.

Agrippa II, 50-100. Middle bronze, year 15=74/5, Caesarea Paneas/Philippi; 4,46 g.

ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ - ΚΑΙCAP Laureate head of Domitian to r.//ΕΤΟΥ ΕΙ ΒΑC ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ Winged Victoria/Nike standing to r., foot on helmet, writing on shield which rests on her l. knee. Hendin no. 1306a; Meshorer, Treasury 235 no. 141a; RPC I no. 2253.3 (this coin).

Good fine/fine

Overbeck - Meshorer no. 171.