Lot 4708

Description

(Caligula), Germania Superior, period of Caligula (A.D. 37-41), (10.10 grams), AE as with countermarks of IMP AVC (MP and AV ligated) and TIB IM, both within separate squares on an Augustus AE as of 7-6 B.C. of M. Salvivs Otho from Rome mint, (Martini, No.15 [for both countermarks] and cf.49, Pangerl Collection of Countermarked Imperial coins type 53 and 57 only one noted to carry both countermarks], host coin RIC 431); another countermarked for Germania Inferior (6.17 grams), AE as, on a Claudius issue of rev. Constantia standing left, 41-50 A.D., with countermark of BON for (Bonum - good), this an issue for the Flavium period (69-79 A.D.), (Martini, No -, Pangerl Collection of Countermarked Imperial coins type 42g, host coin, RIC 95 or 111). Countermarks fine - very fine, host coin fair - fine and both rare. (2)

Martini notes the letters which he believes to mean TIB IMP (Tiberius Imperator) and IMP AVG (Imperator Augustus). He notes this issues as struck on generally issues of Augustus or Claudius respectively. Martini places the issue of these types to the period of Caligula and Vespasian and Titus. It was in a Germania area that this countermarks were applied to circulating worn coinage. The Pangerl collection contained one example of each of these countermarks on only one coin each. Most issues known are of similar weight.