CNG 93, Lot: 758. Estimate $200. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EPIRUS, Buthrotum. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ (20mm, 5.35 g, 6h). Laureate head of Nero right / Draped bust of Asclepius, seen from slightly behind, holding serpent-entwined staff. RPC 1411.5 (this coin); Mazard p. 201, XXI corr. (obv. legend and bust type; Babba in Mauretania); Cohen 434 corr. (same; Babba). Good VF, green patina, reverse slightly off center. Rare.

From Group CEM. Ex Sternberg XI (20 November 1981), lot 236.