Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 818. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAIUS CALIGULA. 37-41 AD. Æ Sestertius (31.57 gm). Struck 37-38 AD. C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, laureate head left / S P Q R/ P P / OB CIVES / SERVATOS in four lines with oak wreath. RIC I 37; BMCRE 38; BN 50; Cohen 24. Superb EF, beautiful brown patina, mingled with traces of red and green, and the fully struck devices showing every vein of every leaf in the oak wreath. (See color enlargement on plate 20.) ($15,000)