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Triskeles Sale 26  7 Dec 2018
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Lot 439

Estimate: 150 USD
Price realized: 135 USD
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Crete, Gortyna(?). Gaius Caligula. A.D. 37-41. Æ (23 mm, 7.25 g, 1 h). [ΓAIOΣ] KAIΣAP ΣEB ΓEPMΔAPX MEΓ [ΔHM EΞOY YΠA], bare head of Caligula right, with drapery at back of neck and holding transverse sceptre / Statue of Divus Augustus, in a toga, holding patera and scepter, placed on a wagon drawn by four elephants, each with its mahout-rider, left; in fields, [seven stars]. Cf. RPC 963 (AR tetradrachm); otherwise unpublished. Tan patina. Nearly very fine / fine.
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