275, Lot: 79. Estimate $200. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ As (35mm, 22.71 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Bare head left / Vesta seated left, holding patera and scepter. RIC I 38. VF, black-green patina, fields smoothed. Struck on a sestertius flan.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 34.

For a similar specimen see Trau (Gilhofer & Ranschburg-A. Hess, 22 May 1935), lot 346.