Watch List notes:

Gaius (Caligula). AD 37-41. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.30 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 40. C • CAESAR • AVG • PON • M • TR • POT • III • COS • III, laureate head of Gaius (Caligula) right / AGRIPPINA • MAT • C • CAES • AVG • GERM •, draped bust of Agrippina Senior right. RIC I 21; Lyon 178/5 (D184/R183); Calicó 327; BMCRE 22; BN –; Biaggi 196 (same dies); Jameson 39 (same dies); Mazzini 5. Light marks, traces of deposits, some hairlines, areas of edge smoothing. Near VF. Very rare.


From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi, 2 June 2007.