Rare and Intriguing Issue

276, Lot: 292. Estimate $750. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Philadelphia (as Neocaesarea). Tiberius Gemellus(?). Caesar, AD 35-37. Æ (14mm, 3.25 g). TIBEPION CEBACTON(?), bare head right / Winged thunderbolt. LS 24 (under Tiberius Gemellus; same obv. die as illustration); RPC I 3017 (under Tiberius; same obv. die as illustrations); Vagi 480 (under Tiberius Gemellus; same obv. die as illustration). VF, dark green patina, light earthen highlights. Rare .

The attribution of this coin is complicated by the celator’s recutting of the single obverse die used to strike this issue. While it is possible that the letter traces could read CEBACTON, the authors of RPC note that this reading, as well as the identification with Tiberius Gemellus, is uncertain.