170, Lot: 200. Estimate $500. Sold for $464. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ Dupondius (28mm, 13.81 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 16-22. Æ Dupondius / Small bust of Tiberius within laurel wreath; all in the center of a large shield with palmettes and raised petals. RIC I 39; BMCRE 90; Cohen 6. VF, dark greenish-brown patina, some minor roughness.

Ex Franz Trau Collection (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 22 May 1935), lot 302.

The dating of this rare As and its counterpart with the reverse "CLEMENTIAE" is still much debated. The authors of RIC date the issue to 16-22 AD while the authors of the BN Catalog date it to 34-37 AD, following Gesche, JNG 1971, and Biasoli, QT 1977.