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Contributor: Mark Reid.

Issuer:

CALIGULA, AD 37-41. AE As.

Obverse:

C CAESAR AVG. GERMANICVS PON. M. TR. POT., His bare head left.

Reverse:

VESTA S. C., Vesta seated left.

Reference:

RIC 38 (Gaius); Sear 616. Grade: aVF.

Comments:

For more information, read the "Gaius (Caligula)" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Caligula see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.