Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1398. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (31.31 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head right, globe at point of bust / Nero on horseback riding right, holding spear; behind him, soldier on horseback right, holding vexillum. RIC I 396; WCN 408; Lyon 68. VF, brown river patina, minor roughness. Perfectly centered on a medallic flan.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Hess (27 October 1988), lot 118.