Denarius - Augustus and Agrippa C SVLPIC PLATORIN

Struck in 13 BC by the moneyer C. Sulpicius Platorinus, this denarius pairs Augustus with Agrippa at a politically charged moment — Agrippa had just returned from a long command in the East and was widely understood to be the designated successor should Augustus die. The pairing on coinage was deliberate, a public assertion of the succession arrangement cemented that same year when Agrippa received a renewal of his tribunician power for five years.

Platorinus was one of the tresviri monetales of that year, the last generation of moneyers to exercise any meaningful creative latitude before Augustus effectively centralized coin design under imperial control.