379, Lot: 357. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.07 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. Laureate head left, globe at point of neck / Annona standing right, holding cornucopia, facing Ceres seated left, holding grain ears and torch; modius on garlanded altar between them, ship's stern in background. RIC I 495; WCN 445. Near VF, brown surfaces, some porosity.
Ex James M. Lindley Collection (Lanz 159, 8 December 2014), lot 360 (Heilbig provenance listed cannot be verified); John Work Garrett Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts & Bank Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 988 (part of); .