Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1699. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (24.65 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 10-14. Laureate head right / The Great Altar of Lugdunum: altar enclosure; panels decorated with corona civica flanked by figures holding laurel branches; altar flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory standing vis-à-vis, each holding palm frond and wreath. RIC I 231a; Lyon 95; BMCRE 565; BN 1695-706. Fine, dark brown patina, minor roughness.