Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 877. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa 64 AD. Laureate head right, aegis at point of bust / Nero seated right on curule chair on raised daïs; to right, official seated right, drawing tessera from container and handing it to figure climbing steps left, extending hand to receive it; child standing behind figure; Minerva and Liberalitas standing facing on daïs in background. RIC I 151; WCN 121; BMCRE -; Cohen -. Good VF, flan crack, green and brown patina, deposit of iron oxide on obverse. ($1500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

Scenes in which the emperor makes public distributions to citizens, a ceremony known as a congiarium, first appear on coinage at this time.