284, Lot: 286. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ As (28mm, 10.59 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 40-41. Bare head left / Vesta seated left, holding patera and scepter. RIC I 54. VF, attractive dark green patina with earthen highlights, scratch behind portrait.

Ex Cornelius Vermeule Collection, (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 38; Leopold G. P. Messenger Collection (Glendining's, 21 November 1951), lot 110.