Rare Tiberius Portrait Sestertius

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 865. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus, with Tiberius as Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (24.84 g, 11h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 10. TI • CAESAR • AVGVSTI • F • IMPERATOR • V •, bare head of Tiberius left / [ROM • E]T • AVG in exergue, the Great Altar of Lugdunum: altar enclosure; panels decorated with corona civica flanked by figures holding laurel branches; decoration along roofline; altar flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory standing vis-à-vis, each holding palm frond in left hand over left shoulder and wreath in right hand. RIC I 240; Lyon 99; BMCRE 572-3; BN 1737-40. VF, dark green and brown patina, scrape on reverse, some porosity and smoothing. Rare.