Extremely Rare Last Issue

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1060. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1910. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula), with Germanicus. AD 37-41. AR Denarius (3.46 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck January AD 41. C CAESAR AVG PONT TR POT IIII COS IIII, Laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / Bare head of Germanicus right. RIC I 30/26 (for obv./rev. type); Lyon 185/181 (for obv./rev. type); RSC -. Near VF, toned, porous, a few scratches, edge test mark. Extremely rare last issue.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Ponterio 47 (8 March 1991), lot 1450.

Caligula became consul for the fourth time on 1 January AD 41 and was killed on 24 January. Only a handful of coins can be dated to his final days.