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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3517070, member: 98035&quot;]A fun little nugget picked from the long lineup of a recent Savoca Blue auction</p><p><br /></p><p>Germanicus, d. AD 19</p><p>AE 15 Sardes, Lydia</p><p>Minted under Mnaseas</p><p>Obv: ΓΕΡΜANIKOΣ ΚΑΙΣΑP, bare head left</p><p>Rev: ΣΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ ΜΝΑΣΕΑΣ, Athena standing, holding spear and patera, resting hand on shield</p><p>[ATTACH=full]933859[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A bit of background: My ultimate vision for my Roman Imperial set is to have, at a minimum, one coin of each Imperial personage from each of the three stages of emperorship:</p><p>- As Caesar under a senior Augustus</p><p>- As Augustus</p><p>- Posthumous</p><p><br /></p><p>Germanicus is one of those tricky early imperial princes - as with so many others, he died a premature death at the intrigues of those who wished him ill. He issued no imperial coins, and neither Augustus nor Tiberius issued coins for him. His son Caligula and brother Claudius both issued posthumous coins to his memory. Germanicus does, however, appear on a modest array of provincial coinage - these are the only option if we want to collect portraits of the man while he was still alive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Problem is - is this actually a lifetime issue? I have seen it attributed both ways - as an issue of Tiberius (thus lifetime) and as an issue of Claudius. On these coins he does look uncannily like his bro, which I feel is an argument toward the latter option, as imperial portraiture was quite idealized until the reign of Claudius.</p><p><br /></p><p>So which is it? Taking all bets! I would love to hear from someone who knows more than I.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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