266, Lot: 347. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 24.09 g, 12h). 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. Fine, reddish-brown patina, roughness, particularly on the reverse.

Ex Glendining’s (10 August 1990), lot 38.