271, Lot: 60. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula) & Nero Claudius Drusus (brother of Tiberius and father of Claudius). AD 37-41 & 38-9 BC, respectively. Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.60 g, 7h). C CAESAR AVG PON M TR POT III COS III, laureate head of Caligula right / NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMANICVS IMP, laureate head of Nero Claudius Drusus left. Unpublished in the standard references. Fine, toned, scratches some breaks in the plating on portrait of Caligula. An interesting plated hybid.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica I (19 May 1999), lot 1732.