Caligula Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 37-38. C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS P M TR POT, Pietas seated to left, holding patera and resting arm on small draped standing figure; PIETAS in exergue / Caligula standing to left, holding patera over garlanded altar, flanked by victimarius holding bull for sacrifice and attendant holding a patera; garlanded hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus in background, pediment decorated with sacrificial scene, with quadriga and Victories as acroteria and statues of Romulus and Aeneas along roof line; DIVO-AVG S-C across fields. RIC I 36; C. 11; BN 51; BMCRE 41-43. 29.26g, 36mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the Antonio Carmona Collection.