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Lot 60. Caligula AE Sestertius
Caligula Sestertius
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Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 15:41:55 CET
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eAuction #29, Lot 60. Estimate: CHF 4'000.00
Caligula (37-41 AD). AE Sestertius (35-36 mm, 27.75 g), Rome, 40-41 AD.
Obv. C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII P P / PIETAS, Pietas, veiled and draped, seated to left, holding a patera in her extended right hand and resting his left elbow on a small draped figurine.
Rev. DIVO–AVG / S-C, elaborately decorated and garlanded hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus, surmounted by a quadriga and other figures, before which stands Caligula, veiled and togate, his head turned to left, sacrificing from a patera over an altar, an attendant restrains a bull to left and partly behind Caligula, a second stands on right, holding a patera.
RIC 51; BMC 69.
Excellent details. Dark green patina. Extremely fine.
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