CNG 96, Lot: 756. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 22.75 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 67. Laureate head left, globe at point of neck / Nero on horseback riding right, holding spear; behind him, soldier on horseback riding right, holding vexillum. RIC I 582; WCN 469; Lyon 266. VF, dark gray and brown patina, hairline flan crack, some roughness.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12334.