Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 737. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AGRIPPINA SENIOR, wife of Germanicus, mother of Gaius (Caligula). Died 33 AD. Æ Sestertius (29.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Gaius (Caligula), 37-41 AD. Draped bust right, wearing hair in long plait / Two mules drawing ornamented carpentum left; six spokes in wheel. RIC I 55 (Gaius); cf. Trillmich Group III, 43/46 (obv./rev.); BMCRE 85 (Caligula); Cohen 1. VF, brick-red and black patina, minor smoothing in obverse fields, minor pitting on reverse. ($1000)