202, Lot: 181. Estimate $1000. Sold for $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 26.15 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head right, globe at point of bust / Nero seated right on high platform; before him, an official seated right on another platform handing congiarium to togate citizen standing with one foot on flight of steps, extending hand; small boy standing left behind him; in background, Minerva, holding owl and spear, and Liberalitas, holding tessera, standing facing. RIC I 502; WCN 439. VF, brown patina, edge hammered flattening the obverse legend and stretching the coin slightly towards 3h.

From the White Mountain Collection.