58, Lot: 101. Estimate $75. Sold for $57. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AGRIPPA. Died 12 BC. Æ As (25mm, 6.51 gm). Local Germanic imitation. [M AGRIPPA. L F] COS III, head left, wearing rostral crown / S-C across field, Neptune standing left, holding small dolphin in right hand, trident in left; c/m: TI AV. Cf. RIC 58 (Gaius); cf. BMCRE 167 (Tiberius); BN 156-159; cf. Cohen 3. Fine, brown patina, reverse encrustation. ($75)

For discussion of this countermark on barbarous asses of Agrippa, see Kraay, "The Behavior of Early Imperial Countermarks" in Essays Mattingly, p. 127., and Giard, "Pouvoir central et Libertés locales" in RN 1970.