The Usurper Nepotian
Ex Trau & Feirstein Collections

CNG 93, Lot: 1267. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nepotian. Usurper, AD 350. Æ (24mm, 5.85 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. Struck 3-30 June, AD 350. FL NEP CONST ANTINVS AVG, laurel and rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VRBS ROMA, Roma seated left on throne, holding Victory on globe in right hand, spear in left; shield below; RЄ. RIC VIII 203; LRBC 644. VF, green patina, light cleaning marks and small pit on obverse, areas of porosity on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 2743; Barry Feirstein Collection (Part I, Numismatica Ars Classica 39, 16 May 2007), lot 196; Franz Trau Collection (Gilhofer & Ranschburg-A. Hess, 22 May 1935), lot 4279.