315, Lot: 376. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 24.81 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head left, globe at point of bust / Ceres seated left, holding grain ears in right hand and torch in left, facing Annona who stands right, holding cornucopia; between them, modius set on an altar and a ship’s stern. RIC I 493 var. (head right); WCN –. Fine, porous brown surfaces.

From the Dr. Robert A. Kilmarx Collection.