CNG 88, Lot: 1217. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.77 g, 3h). “Tribute Penny” type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 2, AD 15-18. Laureate head right, one ribbon on shoulder / Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding spear and branch; ornate legs, double line below. RIC I 27 var. (three lines below); Lyon 145; Calicó 305a. Near EF, underlying luster, tiny edge marks, light scrape on reverse across chair.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex Ponterio 106 (7 April 2000), 278.