Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 995. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AGRIPPINA SENIOR, wife of Germanicus, mother of Gaius (Caligula). Died 33 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.40 gm). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), 37-41 AD. AGRIPPINA M F MAT C CAESARIS AVGVSTI, draped bust right, wearing hair in long plait / S P Q R above, MEMORIAE/AGRIPPINAE in two lines in left field, two mules drawing ornamented carpentum left; six spokes in wheel. RIC I 55 (Gaius); cf. Trillmich Group III, 44/43 (obv./rev.; same dies); MIR 3, 21-4; BMCRE 85 (Caligula); BN 128 (Caligula); Cohen 1. Good VF, Tiber patina, minor flan flaws on reverse. ($2000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Hall Park McCullough Collection (Stack's, 20-22 November 1967), lot 1091; M. Paul Vautier and Prof. Maxime Collignon Collections (Naville II, 12-14 June 1922), lot 251.