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291, Lot: 216. Estimate $150.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Germanicus. Caesar, 15 BC-AD 19. Æ Diassarion (28mm, 18.20 g, 12h). Dated CY 67 (AD 48/9). Bare head right / Laureate head of Zeus Olybris right before mountain with acropolis; [date in exergue]. Ziegler 36 (V1/Rs2); RPC I 4060; SNG France -; SNG Levante 1366. Good Fine, earthen brown patina.


RPC gives three possible identifications for the figure on the obverse: Claudius, Britannicus, and Germanicus. Britannicus is the most easily dismissable attribution; as RPC notes (p. 595) the nomenclature would be unlikely for such a date. Levante and Ziegler describe the figure as Claudius (the latter with a question mark), but the varying portrait style and the obverse legend “TIBERIOC KΛAΔIOC KAICAP” on a parallel issue of the same year casts serious doubt. Germanicus then seems the most likely.