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As - Agrippa IMP D AVG REST S C, Neptune
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 81-82 |
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| Weight | 9.3 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Agrippa facing left, rendered in low relief with strong, angular features characteristic of Julio-Claudian portraiture. The effigy is encircled by the legend M AGRIPPA L F COS III, distributed around the periphery of the flan. The portrait displays a short, closely cropped hairstyle consistent with known iconographic conventions for Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. The coin's surface shows a dark patina with areas of green encrustation typical of long-circulated bronze issues. The flan is slightly irregular, as is common for hammered as denominations of the early imperial period. |
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| Mintage | ND (81-82) |
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This is a posthumous issue struck under Domitian honoring Marcus Agrippa, Augustus's general and son-in-law, who died in 12 BC. The REST legend — short for *restituit* — marks it as a restoration coinage, a practice Domitian employed extensively early in his reign to invoke the prestige of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to which he had no blood connection. Agrippa's original as had been struck under Augustus, likely around 23–12 BC, and the Domitianic restoration follows the earlier type closely.
Restoration issues from Domitian's 81–82 series are well documented in RIC but can be difficult to distinguish from worn Augustan originals without close examination of the die style.