Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1382. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAIUS (CALIGULA). 37-41 AD. Æ Sestertius (23.74 gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 37-38 AD. Laureate head left / S P Q R/P P/OB CIVES/SERVATOS in four lines within oak wreath. RIC I 37; BMCRE 38; Cohen 24. VF, dark brown patina, minor roughness on reverse. The first portrait Sestertius struck at the Rome mint. Rare. ($1500)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46, (24 June 1998), lot 1156.