Dr Adrian Carr Collection of Imperatorial Roman Coins

Lot 4712    Session 17 (11.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Colle    Dr Adrian Carr Collection of Imperatorial Roman Coins

Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $250

CORINTHIA, Corinth, Augustus, (31 B.C. - A.D. 14), AE 21, issued 2-1 B.C., issued by C. Servilius and M. Antoninus Hipparchus, (7.39 g), obv. bare head of Augustus to right, CAESAR downwards to left, CORINT traces downwards to right, rev. heads of Gaius and Lucius Caesar facing each other around C SERVILIO C F PRIMO M ANTONIO HIPPARCHO II VIR, (S.166, BMC 504, Amandry Group XIb [obv.D5, rev R14], SNG Cop. 204, Lanz BCD Sale 105, lot 339). Portraits fine/very fine, weak obverse legends, rare.

Ex Dr. Adrian Carr Collection, from the BCD Collection and from Spink & Sons, London December 1982 with tickets. As with the Agrippa/Augustus denarius there is some dispute over the dating and purpose of this issue. Some (see Kent & Hirmer, p. 19), who see this as an issue by Augustus after the death of Agrippa to declare the adoption of Agrippa's sons Gaius (born 20 B.C.) and Lucius (born 17 B.C.). Augustus was their grandfather. Agrippa was married to Augustus' daughter Julia (Augustus' only child) with whom he had five children. It was Julia's second marriage, previously, in 25 B.C., she married her cousin Marcellus. After the death of Agrippa she married Tiberius in 11 B.C. It appears she was unfaithful to Tiberius and was banished to the island of Pandateria but later allowed to live on the mainland at Rhegium where she died in 14 A.D. Gaius died in 4 A.D., and Lucius died in 2 A.D. The same portraits of Gaius and Lucius that are on this coin are also those on a denarius and aureus issued in 13 B.C., with a portrait of Julia on the same reverse and Augustus portrait on the obverse.