349, Lot: 220. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICYONIA, Sicyon. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Assarion (19mm, 7.87 g, 12h). C. Julius Polyaenus, magistrate. Struck AD 67-68. Laureate head right / Figure on horse trotting left. RPC I 1238 corr. (plate shows type of 1239); BCD Peloponnesos 354.2. Fine, dark red-brown patina.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

In AD 66 Nero journeyed to Greece, where he gave a series of musical and athletic performances much criticized by ancient historians. Struck to commemorate the Freedom of Greece in AD 67, the obverse legend assimilates the emperor with Zeus Eleutherios (“the liberator”)