Artistic Style

193, Lot: 192. Estimate $300. Sold for $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.49 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 63. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Annona standing right, holding cornucopia, facing Ceres seated left, holding grain ears and torch; modius on garlanded altar between them; stern of ship in background. RIC I 98; WCN 71. Near VF, dark brown patina, light porosity and roughness.