Triton XIX, Lot: 497. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.48 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 65-66. NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / SALVS in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left on ornamented throne, holding patera in right hand and resting left at side. RIC I 60; RSC 314; BMCRE 90-3; BN 228. EF, lightly toned, a few marks, some shallow edge tests. Wonderful portrait.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Stack’s (8 April 1989), lot 290; Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII (1 April 1987), lot 439.