201, Lot: 221. Estimate $100. Sold for $107. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICYONIA, Sicyon. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ 21mm (6.46 g, 8h). NE KA Z(retrograde)-EYC EΛEYΘEPIOC, laureate head of Nero left / Male figure, wearing chlamys, on horseback left. RPC I 1238 corr. (plate shows type of 1239); SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, dark brown patina, surfaces a little rough.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

In AD 66 Nero journeyed to Greece, where he gave a series of musical and athletic performances much criticized by ancient historians. Struck to commemorate the Freedom of Greece in AD 67, the obverse legend assimilates the emperor with Zeus Eleutherios (“the liberator”).