288, Lot: 385. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 26.20 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 40-41. 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 in background, hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus with pediment decorated with sacrificial scene and quadriga, Victories, and figures of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 51. VF, brown patina, surfaces a little rough.