The Sisters of Caligula

361, Lot: 896. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 26.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Laureate head left / Gaius' three sisters standing facing: Agrippina (as Securitas) leaning on column, holding cornucopia, and placing hand on Drusilla (as Concordia), holding patera and cornucopia; on right, Julia (as Fortuna) holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC I 33. Good Fine, brown patina, roughness and porosity.

From the Olav E. Klingenberg Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 317 (18 December 2013), lot 256.