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390, Lot: 471. Estimate $750.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 26.89 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Pietas seated left, holding patera and resting arm on small draped figure standing facing on basis / Gaius standing left, holding patera over garlanded altar; 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 36. Near VF, green patina, chipped in a couple spots, some deposits.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.