431, Lot: 360. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 28.58 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 39-40. C • CAESAR • DIVI • AVG • PRON • AVG • P • M • TR • P • III • P • P •, PIETAS in exergue, Pietas seated left on stool, holding patera in extended right hand and resting left forearm on small draped figure standing facing on basis / DIVO AVG/ S C in two lines across field, Gaius 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; pediment decorated with sacrificial scene; quadriga and Victories as acroteria; statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 44. Good VF, brown patina.

Ex W. F. Stoecklin Collection (Part III, Obolos 9, 25 March 2018), lot 161, purchased from Egger in Vienna prior to 1930.