Ex Brand Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1032. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As (26.5mm, 9.60 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64. NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR • AVG • GERMANIC, radiate head right / PONTIF MAX TR POT IMP P P, S C across field, Nero, laureate, wearing flowing robe of Apollo Citharoedus, advancing right, playing lyre held in left hand; I (mark of value) in exergue. RIC I 211; WCN 272; BMCRE 256; BN 325-6. Good VF, brown patina, some green, a few light edge marks. In high relief on a broad flan.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 75 (25 October 1999), lot 1472; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 3, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1983), lot 275.