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Electronic Auction 453  2 Oct 2019
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Lot 506

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 3500 USD
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Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 25.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 37-38. C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, laureate head left / AGRIPPINA on left, DRVSILLA above, IVLIA on right, 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; on right, Julia (as Fortuna) holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC I 33; BMCRE 36-7; BN 47-9; CNR XII, 53/4 (this coin). Red-brown surfaces, some roughness. Near VF. Rare.

Ex Bayerische Vereinsbank Münzschätze FPL 5 (1973), no. 71.
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