192, Lot: 226. Estimate $500. Sold for $1525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 24.46 g). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 9-14. Laureate head right / Front elevation of the Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, flanked by stylized male figures; to left and right, Victories on columns. RIC I 231a; Lyon 95; BMCRE 565; BN 1695. VF, dark brown surfaces, rough.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.