Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 740. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAIUS (CALIGULA). 37-41 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.51 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck 39-40 AD. Pietas seated left on stool, holding patera and resting on small draped figure standing facing on basis / Gaius, toga draped over his head, standing left, holding patera over garlanded altar; victimarius standing facing, holding bull for sacrifice; second attendant standing behind Gaius, holding a patera on either side; garlanded hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus in background, pediment decorated with sacrificial scene; triumphal quadriga and Victories as acroteria, statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 44; BMCRE p. 156, †; Cohen 10. VF, black-brown surfaces with areas of hard green overtones. Rare. ($1000)