Triton XVI, Lot: 1037. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 27.05 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 40-41. C • CAESAR • DIVI • AVG • PRON • AVG • P • M • TR • P • IIII • P • P • around, PIETAS in exergue, Pietas, veiled and draped, seated left on stool, holding patera in extended right hand and resting left elbow on small draped figure standing facing on basis / DIVO AVG/S C in two lines across field, sacrifice scene in front of temple: Gaius (Caligula), veiled and togate, standing left, holding patera in right hand over garlanded altar, raising hem of toga with left hand; victimarius holding bull for sacrifice and attendant holding a patera standing on either side; garlanded hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus in background; pediment decorated with sacrificial scene; quadriga and Victories as acroteria; statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 51; BMCRE 69; BN 118-9. Good VF, green and red-brown patina, some minor porosity and cleaning marks.