424, Lot: 427. Estimate $1000. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (37mm, 25.52 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Pietas seated left, holding patera and resting arm on small draped figure standing facing on basis / Gaius standing left, holding patera over garlanded altar; victimarius holding bull for sacrifice and attendant holding a patera standing on either side; garlanded hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus in background; pediment decorated with sacrificial scene; quadriga and Victories as acroteria; statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 36. VF, brown surfaces, flan crack, some pitting. A river coin.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William B. Porter, September 1992.