298, Lot: 113. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 22.72 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head left, globe at point of bust / Annona standing right, placing hand on hip and holding cornucopia, vis-à-vis Ceres, seated left with foot on low stool, holding grain ears over modius set on garlanded altar and torch; ship’s stern in background. RIC I 391; WCN 412. Near VF, brown surfaces, some light roughness.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.