132, Lot: 174. Estimate $200. Sold for $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANICUS, father of Gaius (Caligula). Died 19 AD. Æ Dupondius (30mm, 15.72 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. VF, dark green and brown surfaces, fields smoothed, surfaces a little rough.

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