120, Lot: 53. Estimate $200. Sold for $202. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANICUS, father of Gaius (Caligula). Died 19 AD. Æ Dupondius (29mm, 15.45 g). Rome mint. Struck under Caligula, 37-41 AD. Germanicus in ornamented slow quadriga right / Germanicus advancing left, raising hand and holding legionary eagle. RIC I 57 (Caligula); BMCRE 94 (Caligula); Cohen 7. Fine, dark reddish-brown patina, rough surfaces.

Commemorates, in part, Germanicus' recovery of the legionary standards lost in the Teutoburg Forest under Varus in 9 AD.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.