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CILICIA, Anazarbus. Germanicus. Caesar, 15 BC-AD 19. Æ Diassarion (29.7mm, 14.70 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 – (V1/– [unlisted rev. die]); RPC 4060 (same obv. die); SNG BN –; SNG Levante 1366. Near VF, dark green patina with earthen highlights/deposits, cleaning scratches. Highly interesting reverse type.
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.
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.