Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
N.d.
Primary Source Reference:
"Catalogue des Medailles Romaines dans ma collection," Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 2
Notes:
Obverse: IMP DIVI F (successful general, son of the god) above and below heaDu Simitière of Agrippa (l.) and Augustus (r.) back to back. Agrippa wears rostral crown, and Augustus may be bare or wreathed in oak, depending. Reverse: crocodile chained to a palm tree COL NEM (Colonia Nemausus) to l. and r. of tree. The coin was probably an as, minted in Nemausus (Nimes) between 20 BC-AD 14. See C.H.V. Sutherland, The Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. 1 (London, 1984), 50-51.
