Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1354. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANICUS, father of Gaius (Caligula). Died 19 AD. Æ Dupondius (12.89 gm). Rome mint. Struck under Caligula, 37-41 AD. Germanicus in ornamented slow quadriga right / Germanicus advancing left, raising hand and holding legionary eagle. RIC I 57 (Gaius); BMCRE 94 (Caligula); Cohen 7. Good VF, green surfaces, minor roughness on reverse. ($1000)

Commemorates, in part, Germanicus' recovery of the legionary standards lost in the Teutoburg Forest under Varus in 9 AD.