Sale: Triton X, Lot: 572. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (26.83 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, laureate head left / AGRIPPINA DRVSILLA IVLIA, S C in exergue, Gaius' three sisters standing facing: Agrippina (as Securitas) leaning on column, holding cornucopia, and placing hand on Drusilla (as Concordia), holding patera and cornucopia; Julia (as Fortuna) holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC I 33; CNR XII, 56 (this coin); BMCRE 37; BN 49; Cohen 4. Near EF, red, brown, and green patina, minor roughness and smoothing in fields.
Ex Michael Weller Collection (Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 999; Leu 54 (28 April 1992), lot 221; Leu 22 (8-9 May 1979), lot 194; Leu 2 (25 April 1972), lot 361.