133, Lot: 224. Estimate $200. Sold for $430. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANICUS, father of Gaius (Caligula). Died 19 AD. Æ As (29mm, 11.11 gm). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), 37-41 AD. Bare head of Germanicus left / Legend around large S C. RIC I 35 (Gaius); BMCRE 49 (Caligula); Cohen 1 (Germanicus). Good VF, brown patina, light tooling of hair, patina retouched on reverse.

Gaius, the youngest, and only surviving son of Germanicus and Agrippina Sr., became emperor at only 25 years of age. Although he had long been admired by his father's legions (they had given him the nickname Caligula), since, as a small child, he had acco