CNG 109, Lot: 618. Estimate $500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. temp. Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ Tessera (23mm, 5.43 g, 10h). Struck circa AD 22/3-37. Cuirassed bust (of Germanicus?) right, seen from behind; spear over left shoulder; all within plain border and wreath / V within pearl border and wreath. Buttrey 17/V (this piece cited); Cohen 11 (Tiberius); Kestner, Tesseren –. VF, dark green patina, light roughness, thin flan crack. Rare.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 72 (16 May 2013), lot 596; Künker 115 (25 September 2006), lot 406; Numismatica Ars Classica 27 (12 May 2004), lot 314; J. Hirsch XXXIII (17 November 1913), lot 1506.