Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1390. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAIUS (CALIGULA), with GERMANICUS. 37-41 AD. AV Aureus (7.69 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck 37-38 AD. C CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR POT, laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / GERMANICVS CAES P C CAES AVG GERM, bare head of Germanicus right. RIC I 17; Lyon 171.7 (V106/R138) = Mazzini 1 = De Sartiges 53 (this coin); Calicó 321; BMCRE 18; BN 27 (Lugdunum); Cohen 1. VF, a few light marks. Well centered with good portraits. Very rare. ($15,000)

Ex Naville-Ars Classica XVIII (1938), lot 76; G. Mazzini Collection, 1; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection, 53.