324, Lot: 355. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 28.63 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Laureate head left / ADLOCVT COH, Gaius, bareheaded and togate, standing left on daïs, addressing five soldiers standing right; sella castrensis behind Gaius. RIC I 32. VF, slightly rough green and brown surfaces.

The lack of S C suggests that this interesting issue was undertaken and paid for by the emperor. Cassius Dio (59.2) writes “... in company with the senate, he inspected the Pretorians at drill and distributed to them the money that had been bequeathed them, amounting to a thousand sesterces apiece.”