Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1056. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ 29mm (16.39 g, 12h). M. Tarquitius Priscus, proconsularis. Struck circa AD 59-61. Laureate head left / Capricorn left, set on globe, and cornucopia set wreath; all set on cista covered by panther hide and inscribed NEIK/AIE; thyrsus behind. RPC I 2057/3 (this coin); RG 39 var. (rev. legend). VF, green patina with earthen overtones, light scratch in left field of obverse.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.