RPC I, 4982


Image of specimen #8

Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	4982
Province	Syria
Region	Samaria
City	Caesarea Maritima
Reign	Claudius
Person (obv.)	Agrippa I (king) ; Claudius (Augustus) ; Herod (king)
Obverse inscription	ΒΑΣ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ ΣΕΒ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΒΑΣ ΗΡΩ[ΔΗΣ], LΗ
Edition	Βασ(ιλεὺς) Ἀγρίππας Σεβ(αστὸς) Καῖσαρ Βασ(ιλεὺς) Ἡρώδης (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation	King Agrippa, Augustus Caesar, King Herod, of year 8
Obverse design	Kings Agrippa and Herod crown the emperor Claudius, who stands wearing a toga capite velatio
Reverse inscription	ΟΡΚΙΑ ΒΑΣ ΜΕ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ ΠΡ ΣΕΒ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ[Α Κ ΣΥ]ΝΚΛΗΤΟΝ Κ ΔΗΜ(Ο) ΡΩΜ ΦΙΛΙ Κ ΣΥ(Ν)ΜΑΧ(Ι) ΑΥΤ(ΟΥ)
Edition	ὅρκια βασ(ιλέως) Με(γάλου) Ἀγρίππα πρ(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸν) Καίσαρα κ(αὶ) σύνκλητον κ(αὶ) δῆμο(ν) Ῥωμ(αίων) φιλί(α) κ(αὶ) συνμαχί(α) αὐτοῦ
Translation	oaths of King Agrippa the Great to Augustus Caesar, and the Senate and People of Rome, his friendship and alliance
Reverse design	wreath enclosing clasped hands
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	25 mm
Average weight	14.81 g
Axis	6, 12
Reference	Meshorer 5; Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8; Burnett, Agrippa (2014) no. 4982
Specimens	25 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links	1, 21: same rev. die. 2–5, 8, 17–18, 22, 25, 27: same rev. die. 6–7, 9, 11–12, 20: same rev. die. 10, 16: same rev. die. 14, 23–4, 28: same rev. die.
Note	For a related issue of King Herod of Chalcis, see RPC I, 4777. See also A. J. M. Kropp, Crowning the Emperor. An unorthodox image of Claudius, Agrippa I and Herod of Chalkis, Syria 90 (2013), pp. 377-89. Many thanks to Richard Beleson, for his presentation to the ANS on 13 September 2024 (see https://youtu.be/9BtrdDvzdbI?si=uLzDNAbOG8xC1l5Y ), in which he identified some new specimens and established die-links for the reverses. He also suggested that the clasped hands represent the obverse, since on all other coins of Agrippa, this countermark is on the obverse. This is certainly what the countermarkers seemed to have thought, but the scene of kings and emperor on the Herod of Chalcis issue seems clearly to be the obverse.
Correction	Corrected coin-type (post publication)

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Specimens of this coin type

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	J-BoI	Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.6 (with pl. 4.8) = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 37	25	18.30		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
2	2	P: 132	Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.1 = BMC Palestine pl. xlii.10 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 32	25	14.44		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
3	3	J-SBF	Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.2 = Spijkermann, Liber Annuus XIII (1962-2), p. 308 fig. 3b (from an Arab of the Hauwara village in the Nablus area’’) = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 33	24	13.60	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
4	4	J-SBF	Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.3 = Meshorer, Jewish Coins (1967), pl. XIII.93= Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 34	25	15.40	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
5	5	Kadman	Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.4 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig 35	25	13.20			Show
6	6	Kadman	Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.5 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 36	25	17.40		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
7	7		Künker 334, 17 Mar. 2020, lot 2139 = Samel coll. = Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8.7 = J. Maltiel-Gerstenfeld, 260 Years of Ancient Jewish Coins (1982), p. 153 no. 135 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 38	25.3	15.90	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
8	8 ✸		CNG Triton XXII, 8 Jan. 2019, lot 730	26	16.20	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
9	9		Roma Numismatics XVI, 26 Sept. 2018, lot 435	26	16.83	12	authentic? strange style	Show
10	10		Goldberg 104, 12 June 2018, lot 3103 = Markov The New York Sale XLII, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 267	25.1	11.71		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
11	11		CNG 103, 14 Sept. 2016, lot 592 = CNG 96 (14 May 2014), lot 670	24	14.32	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
12	12		CNG 100, 7 Oct. 2015, lot 1759	25	16.78	6	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
14	14		CNG 117, 19 May 2021, lot 429	24	14.60	6		Show
16	16		CNG 118, 13 Sept. 2021, lot 761 = Fontanille 106, Apr. 2018, lot 6	25	16.56			Show
17	17		Roma Numismatics XXII, 7 Oct. 2021, lot 524	27.2	15.24	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
18	18		CNG 120, 11 May 2022, lot 667 = CNG 114, 13 May 2020, lot 528.	25.5	14.81	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
20	20		CNG 96, 14 May 2014, lot 670 = CNG 94, 18 Sep. 2013, lot 917 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 41	24	14.84	12	Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
21	21		Archaeological Center (R. Deutsch) sale 40 (2007), lot 60 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 39		13.00		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.) ; LΗ	Show
22	22		Archaeological Center (R. Deutsch) sale 40 (2007), lot 61 = Burnett, Agrippa (2014) fig. 40		14.20		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
23	23		CNG EA 533, 22 Feb. 2023, lot 417	24	12.15	6		Show
24	24		Sol Numismatik Special 1, 8 June 2024, lot 81	24.6	13.38		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
25	25		Naville Numismatics 91, 11 Aug. 2024, lot 341 = Triton XXVII, lot 5505	24.6	15.40		Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
26	26		Beleson Coll.				Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
27	27		Private Coll.				Rev.: GIC 156 (laureate (?) head l.)	Show
28	28		THE NEW YORK SALE 57, 11 Jan. 2023, lot 94	23.2	12.37			Show