Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 998. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. GAIUS (CALIGULA). 37-41 AD. Æ 
Sestertius (29.43 gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 
37-38 AD. Sold For $2750 

GAIUS (CALIGULA). 37-41 AD. Æ Sestertius (29.43 
gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 37-38 AD. C CAESAR AVG 
GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, laureate head left / 
ADLOCVT COH above and below, Gaius standing left 
on daïs with camp chair behind, addressing five 
soldiers standing right, holding parazonia and 
shields; four legionary aquilae behind. RIC I 32; 
MIR 3, 6-4; CNR XII, 36/8 (this coin); BMCRE 33; 
BN 46; Cohen 1. Good VF, green patina with brown 
traces, spot of minor smoothing in reverse field. 
($3000)

Ex-Michael Weller Collection; Ex Classical 
Numismatic Review XX (Spring 1995), no. 20-110; 
Ex-Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 214; Ex-Stack's, 20-22 November 1967), lot 1096.

Highly unusual on this coin is the lack of the letters S C, 
which designate a coin issued by decree of the Senate (Senatus Consulto). The ADLOCVT(io) COH(ortium) sestertii are thought to 
have been a special distribution issue for the Praetorian Guard 
personally funded out of the emperor's own purse.

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