Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1005. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (24.84 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head right, globe at point of bust / Nero seated right on high platform; before him, an official seated right on another platform handing congiarium to togate citizen standing with one foot on a flight of steps with extended hand; small boy standing left behind him; in background, Minerva standing left, holding owl and spear; on lower level, Liberalitas standing facing, holding up tessera. RIC I 502; WCN 439; Lyon 178. Good VF, dark green and red patina, minor smoothing. Rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 129 (8 March 2004), lot 293.