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287, Lot: 410. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 14.48 g, 1h). Uncertain Balkan mint (Perinthus?). Struck circa AD 64. Laureate head right / Triumphal arch surmounted by statue of emperor in quadriga in procession. MacDowall, “Two Roman Countermarks of AD 68,” NC 1960, p. 107, 1 var. (obv. legend); RPC I 1758 var. (same). Good VF, dark green and brown patina, fields smoothed.


Recent scholarship suggests that such Balkan imitations were struck at Perinthus. Provenance, when known, is almost always in the northwest Balkan area. In addition, the coins are frequently encountered countermarked with Galban stamps (ΓAL KAI and GALBA) that were used to countermark provincial Perinthan issues.

This particular specimen is unusual in that it was struck on a compact flan about the weight of a dupondius.