Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 854. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAIUS (CALIGULA). 37-41 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.13 gm). Rome mint. 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 within oak wreath. RIC I 37; MIR 3, 12-4; BMCRE 38; BN 50; Cohen 24. EF, brick-red patina with traces of green, some minor smoothing in fields. [See color enlargement on plate 14] ($5000)