Sale: Triton X, Lot: 573. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (28.40 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 39-40. C. CAESAR. DIVI. AVG. PRO.N. AVG. P. M. TR. P. III. P. P., PIETAS in exergue, Pietas seated left on stool, holding patera in extended right hand and resting left forearm on small draped figure standing facing on basis / DIVO AVG, S C across field, Gaius togate, standing left, holding patera in right hand over garlanded altar, raising hem of toga with left hand; victimarius holding bull for sacrifice and attendant holding a patera standing on either side; garlanded hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus in background; pediment decorated with sacrificial scene; quadriga and Victories as acroteria; statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line. RIC I 44; BMCRE p. 156, † (pl. 28, 9); BN 104; Cohen 10. Good VF, beautiful brown patina, surfaces lightly smoothed. Rare.

Ex Elsen FPL 211 (August-September 2000), lot 120 (cover coin).