Agrippa Receives the Rostral Crown
Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.76 g, 2h). Rome mint; C. Sulpicius Platorinus, moneyer. Struck 13 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTV[S], bare head right / C • SVLPICIVS • PLATORIN, Augustus and Agrippa, bare-headed and togate, seated side by side, facing slightly left, on a bisellium, placed on a platform which is ornamented with three rostra; on left, staff or spear. RIC I 407; RSC 529; BMCRE 115-6; BN 537-41. EF, toned, some shallow cleaning marks under tone.
From the WRG Collection. Ex Stack’s (10 June 1996), lot 478.
The prows on the reverse commemorate the occasion on which Agrippa received the rostral crown, the battle of Naulochus.
