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| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 120 | Auction date: 11 May 2022 |
| Lot number: 667 | |
| Lot description: JUDAEA, Herodians. Agrippa I, with Herod of Chalcis and Claudius. 37-43 CE. Æ (25.5mm, 14.81 g, 12h). Caesarea Maritima mint. Dated RY 8 of Agrippa (43/4 CE). BAΣ [AΓPIΠΠAΣ ΣEB KAIΣAP BAΣ HPΩΔHΣ] (King Agrippa, Augustus Caesar, King Herod), Claudius, togate, standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar, between Agrippa I and Herod of Chalcis, each crowning the emperor with a wreath; [L H (date) in exergue] / [OPKIA B]AΣ ME AΓPIΠΠA [ΠΡ ΣEΒ KAIΣAP AK ΣYNKΛHTON, K ΔHM POM ΦIΛI K ΣY]NM XI AY (A vow and treaty of friendship and alliance between the Great King Agrippa and Augustus Caesar, the Senate and the People of Rome) in two concentric circles divided by wreath; clasped right hands in center; c/m: crude head left within oval incuse. Burnett, Coinage 8; Meshorer 124a; Hendin 6278a; RPC I 4982. For c/m: Howgego 156. Dark green and reddish-brown patina, earthen deposits, some roughness and scratches. Fine. Rare and of great historical importance. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 114 (13 May 2020), lot 528. Agrippa I had a close relationship with both Gaius (Caligula) and Claudius, in part helping to secure the rule of the latter in the uncertain days following his unexpected rise to the purple. Indeed, his relationship with Claudius was so close that Josephus (Ant. xix. 5.1) records that among the new emperor's first acts was publishing an edict guaranteeing Agrippa's kingdom (with the title "Great King") and granting the territory of Chalcis to Agrippa's elder brother Herod. This remarkable and rare issue not only explicitly refers to the alliance on the reverse, even using Agrippa's new title "Great King," but depicts the oath taking ceremony that occurred in the Roman Forum and is discussed in historical sources: He also made a league with this Agrippa, confirmed by oaths, in the middle of the Forum in the city of Rome. (Josephus, Ant. xix.5.1) He struck his treaties with foreign princes in the Forum, sacrificing a pig and reciting the ancient formula of the fetial priests. (Suetonius, Claud. 25.5) For the extremely rare counterpart issue of Herod of Chalcis with a similar obverse, albeit with the position of the brothers switched, see Meshorer 361. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
