298, Lot: 118. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 28.18 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head right / Roma seated left on cuirass, with right foot on helmet, holding Victory and parazonium; shields behind. RIC I 273 var. (aegis); BMCRE 173; WCN 145 var. (same). Good VF, green and brown patina, some roughness, minor smoothing in reverse fields.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.