Ex Boyd Collection - Nearly 120 Year Old Pedigree

243, Lot: 318. Estimate $400. Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As (28mm, 10.98 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Bare head right, globe at point of bust / The Ara Pacis: ornamented altar enclosure with double door. RIC I 530; WCN 588. VF, brown patina, some surface roughness. Includes old collector’s ticket.

Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin’s 42, 26 September 2005), lot 261; Sotheby’s (17 February 1892), lot 385 (part of).