264, Lot: 383. Estimate $500. Sold for $655. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.68 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Laureate head left / Gaius, bareheaded and togate, standing left on daïs, extending right hand in gesture of address; behind him a
sella castrensis (chair); in front of him stand five soldiers right, all helmeted, holding shields, and parazonia; four aquilae behind them. RIC I 32. Near VF, mostly reddish surfaces with some flaking green patina on the reverse, rough.