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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: GERMANICUS, adopted son of Tiberius, husband of Agrippina senior, father of Caligula. As (Bronze 9.9 grams, 27.74 mm), struck by Caligula.
Obverse: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI. AVGVST. F. DIVI AVG. N., his bare head left.
Reverse: C. CAESAR AVG. GERMANICVS PON. M. TR. POT., around large S. C
Reference: RIC 35 (Gaius); Sear 600.
Comments: For more information, read the "Gaius (Caligula)" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Germanicus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.