326, Lot: 449. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 22.59 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 63. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis; c/m: ΓΑΛΒΑ within rectangular incuse / Nero and soldier on horseback, performing military exercise (decursio). RIC I 104; WCN 75; for c/m: Howgego 526 (Perinthos in Thrace). Near VF, brown surfaces with green highlights, porosity.

For a discussion of the countermark, see D. W. MacDowall, “Two Roman countermarks of A. D. 68,” NumChron (1960), pp. 103-12.