Lot 4713

Description

(Nero or later), Germania Superior, early period of Nero (A.D. 54-68), (9.47 grams), AE as with countermarks of TI AV (AV ligated) within a separate square on an Agrippa AE as of c.40 A.D. from Rome mint, (Martini, No.42, Pangerl Collection of Countermarked Imperial coins type 54 only one noted to carry this countermark {54g}], host coin RIC 58 [p.112]); another countermarked for Pannonia (7.76 grams) in the period of Gaius and Claudius (c.37-54 A.D.) and maybe early into the reign of Nero, AE dupondius of Augustus an issue of Q. Aelius Lamia issued 18-17 B.C., with countermark of CAE (Caesar) and PP (Pater Patriae) (both in oval), (Martini, No 37, Pangerl Collection of Countermarked Imperial coins type 77 and 81, host coin, RIC 324). Countermarks, fine - very fine, host coin fair - nearly fine and both very rare. (2)

Martini notes for the first coin the countermarked letters which he believes to mean TI AV (Titus? Augustus with some hoard evidence suggesting period 79-83 A.D.), but because of uniformity of overstriking on Gaius and Claudius period issues it also may suggest much earlier during the reign of Nero. Martini suggests the countermark may be imitative. It was in a Germania area that this countermarks was applied to circulating worn coinage. The Pangerl collection contained one example only on an Agrippa as. The second coin is an issue of Augustus c.18-17 B.C. but is not listed for this magistrate on a dupondius with these countermarks, but both countermarks occur on other dupondii. The two countermarks are reported on only one example in the Pangerl collection.