Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1729. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1330. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (24.23 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 67. Laureate head right, globe at point of bust / Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory and parazonium, resting foot on helmet; shields behind. RIC I 593; WCN 465; Lyon 262. VF, green patina, brown surfaces where patina is lost, hairline flan crack, traces of roughness and smoothing. Well centered on a broad flan.