Artistic Portrait

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 898. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Sestertius (25.61 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa July-August AD 68. IMP SER GALBA AVG TR P, bare head right / S P Q R/OB/CIV SER in three lines within oak wreath. RIC I 259; ACG 294; BMCRE p. 327, *; BN -. VF, dark green patina, some roughness and smoothing, deposits on reverse. Very rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

A similar example, lot 340 in Numismatica Ars Classica 27 (12 May 2004), realized 7000 CHF.