354, Lot: 504. Estimate $200. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Dupondius (26mm, 11.03 g, 12h). Balkan mint (Perinthus?). Struck circa AD 64-68. Radiate head right / Securitas seated right on throne, resting elbow on back of throne, propping up head with hand and holding scepter; altar to right, against which leans torch resting on bucranium; II (mark of value) in exergue. MacDowall, “Two Roman Countermarks of AD 68,” 1960, p. 108, –; RIC I –, but see discussion on pp. 186-7; RPC I –; CNG E-158, lot 225 (same obv. die); CNG E-143, lot 206 (same obv. die). Near VF, green patina, some porosity, traces of earthen deposits. Rare.