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Electronic Auction 416  14 Mar 2018
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Lot 411

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 500 USD
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Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 24.25 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. Pietas seated left, holding patera and resting arm on small draped figure standing facing on basis / Gaius standing left, holding patera over garlanded altar; 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 36. VF, dark green and reddish-brown patina, heavily smoothed and tooled.

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