CILICIA, Anazarbus. Germanicus. Died AD 19. Æ Diassarion (28mm, 15.71 g, 12h). Dated CY 67 (AD 48/9).

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Lot: 200. Estimated: $ 100

Roman Provincial, Bronze

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CILICIA, Anazarbus. Germanicus. Died AD 19. Æ Diassarion (28mm, 15.71 g, 12h). Dated CY 67 (AD 48/9). Bare head right / Laureate head of Zeus Olybris right before mountain with acropolis; ETOYΣ ZΞ (date) in exergue. Ziegler 35 (O1/R1); RPC I 4060 (same obv. die as illustration); SNG BN –; SNG Levante 1366. Dark green patina with touches of red, some cleaning/smoothing scratches, flan flaw on edge. Good Fine. Interesting reverse type.

Ex Leu Numismatik Web Auction 1 (25 June 2017), lot 795.

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 parellel issue of the same year casts serious doubt. Germanicus then seems the most likely.

Closing Date and Time: 29 July 2020 at 11:06:20 ET.

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