175, Lot: 156. Estimate $100. Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAUL, Trier(?). Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Quadrans(?) (19mm, 2.80 g). Germanus Indutilli L(ibertus), magistrate. Head of Germanus right / Bull butting left. RPC I 506; RIC I 249. Near VF, green patina, holed and plugged.

According to RPC, p. 149, this type is common and the “distribution... is centered in Gallia Belgica, possibly around Treviri [Trier]... This series may be regarded as an auxiliary regional coinage struck in the name of a local authority, Germanus Indutilli L(ibertus), whose features appear on the obverse