Triton XX, Lot: 658. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula), with Agrippina Senior. AD 37-41. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.65 g, 9h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 2nd emission, 2nd phase, late AD 37-early AD 38. C · CAESAR · AVG · GERM · P · M · TR · POT, laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / AGRIPPINA · MAT · C · CAES · AVG · GERM ·, draped bust of Agrippina right, wearing hair in waves from brow downward and knotted in a long plait at the back, one lock falls loose down the neck. RIC I 14 (Rome mint); Lyon 169; RSC 2; BMCRE 15; BN 24-6. EF, toned, minor porosity.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Peus 372 (30 October 2002), lot 1155.