271, Lot: 65. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Dupondius (30mm, 18.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 66. IMP NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P P P, radiate head right / Roma seated left on cuirass, holding wreath in extended right hand and parazonium in left; three round shields behind, S-C across field, ROMA in exergue. RIC I 344; WCN 233; Cohen 279. EF, appealing red and green patina. Well struck on a broad flan.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 317.