Triton XVII, Lot: 648. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.76 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 39-40. C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P III 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 / [D]IVO AVG/S C in two lines across field, sacrificial scene before 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, with pediment decorated with sacrificial scene, quadriga and Victories as acroteria, and statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 44; BMCRE 58†; BN 104. VF, river brown patina, porosity, a few metal flaws.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22944.