Triton XV, Lot: 1497. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.38 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64-65. NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / AVGVSTVS AVGVSTA, Nero, radiate and togate, standing left, holding patera and scepter; behind him, his wife, Poppaea Sabina, veiled and draped, standing left, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC I 44; Calicó 401; BMCRE 52; BN 199-200. Good VF, lustrous, a trace of deposits on obverse. Rare.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex New York Sale IV (17 January 2002), lot 351.