269, Lot: 257. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Germanicus. Caesar, 15 BC-AD 19. Æ Diassarion (30mm, 16.81 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 II 4060 (same obv. die as illustration); SNG Levante 1366; SNG France -. VF/Near VF, mottled red and dark green patina. Good portrait and interesting reverse design.

Ex Hirsch 251 (9 May 2007), lot 861.

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 of the three.