315, Lot: 178. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Sardis. Germanicus, with Drusus. Caesar, 15 BC-AD 19. Æ (26mm, 14.95 g, 1h). Originally struck circa AD 23-26. Restruck under Asinius Pollio, proconsul, circa AD 28-29. Drusus and Germanicus seated left in curule chairs / KOINOY/AΣIAΣ in two lines wreath. RPC I 2995; BMC 106. Near VF, green patina.

From the R. D. Frederick Collection.

This peculiar issue is often found restruck with two intricate “countermarks”' These “countermarks” were ring-shaped punches that surrounded the obverse and reverse designs and carried legends. While the obverse “countermark-legend” is the same as that which appeared on the original striking, the reverse legend has been replaced by a new “countermark-legend.”