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373, Lot: 712. Estimate $150.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PADUAN MEDALS. Nero. AD 54-68. Cast Æ “Sestertius” (34mm, 20.97 g, 6h). After Giovanni Cavino. Made 1500-1570. Laureate bust right, aegis at point of bust / Port of Ostia: seven ships within the harbor; at the top is a pharus surmounted by a statue of Neptune; below is a reclining figure of Tiber, holding a rudder and dolphin; to left, crescent-shaped pier with portico, terminating with figure sacrificing at altar and with building; to right, crescent-shaped row of breakwaters or slips. Johnson & Martini 1389-95; Klawans 1; Lawrence 18. VF, attractive brown surfaces.


From the Byron Schieber Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 3044.