Savoca Coins
Online Auction 31 | Silver 10 Mar 2019
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Gaius (Caligula) AD 37-41. Struck AD 37-38. Rome
Sestertius Æ
33 mm., 25,53 g.
C • CAESAR • AVG • GERMANICVS • P M • TR • POT • around, PIETAS in exergue, Pietas, veiled and draped, seated left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and resting left arm on small facing figure, draped, on basis / DIVO AVG, S C in two lines across field, 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.
nearly very fine
RIC I 36; BMCRE 41-3; BN 51.
Sestertius Æ
33 mm., 25,53 g.
C • CAESAR • AVG • GERMANICVS • P M • TR • POT • around, PIETAS in exergue, Pietas, veiled and draped, seated left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and resting left arm on small facing figure, draped, on basis / DIVO AVG, S C in two lines across field, 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.
nearly very fine
RIC I 36; BMCRE 41-3; BN 51.