ROMAN EMPIRE - GAIUS (CALIGULA) - SESTERTIUS 39-40 AD. AE Sestertius. Obv: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII PP, Pietas seated left, holding patera, left elbow resting on small facing statue, PIETAS below. Rev: DIVO AVG S-C to left and right of garlanded, hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus, before which Caligula stands left, sacrificing at altar, one attendant leads a bull to the altar, the other holds a patera. Copper-alloy, 26.82 grams. About fine, scarce. Literature BMC 69; RIC 51; Sear 1802.
ROMAN EMPIRE - GAIUS (CALIGULA) - SESTERTIUS 39-40 AD. AE Sestertius. Obv: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII PP, Pietas seated left, holding patera, left elbow resting on small facing statue, PIETAS below. Rev: DIVO AVG S-C to left and right of garlanded, hexastyle temple of Divus Augustus, before which Caligula stands left, sacrificing at altar, one attendant leads a bull to the altar, the other holds a patera. Copper-alloy, 26.82 grams. About fine, scarce. Literature BMC 69; RIC 51; Sear 1802.
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