CILICIA, Anazarbus. Germanicus. Died AD 19. Æ Diassarion (30mm, 16.50 g, 1h). 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 37-43 (Vs2/Rs– [rev. die unrecorded]); RPC I 4060; SNG BN –; SNG Levante 1366. Earthen green patina, light porosity. VF. Interesting reverse type, one of only two depictions of the acropolis of Anazarbus on coins of this city.

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.

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