123, Lot: 190. Estimate $200. Sold for $228. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANICUS, father of Gaius (Caligula). Died 19 AD. Æ Dupondius (29mm, 15.80 g). Struck under Gaius (Caligula), 37-41 AD. Germanicus in ornamented slow quadriga right / Germanicus advancing left, raising hand and holding legionary eagle. RIC I 57 (Caligula); Cohen 7. Near VF, even brown surfaces.

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.

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