Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 559. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (27.45 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 64. NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head left / ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES, Annona standing right, right hand on hip, holding cornucopia in left, facing Ceres seated left, feet on low stool, holding grain ears in right hand over modius on garlanded altar, and torch cradled in left; ship's stern in background. RIC I 99; WCN 77; BMCRE -; BN 259 var. (laureate head right). Good VF, dark green-brown patina, minor roughness. Attractive portrait style.

From the White Mountain Collection.