Triton XX, Lot: 670. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 24.19 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX TR POT P P, laureate head left, globe at point of neck / ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES, Annona standing right, holding cornucopia with her left hand, resting right hand on her hip, facing Ceres seated left, holding grain ears with her extended right hand and torch with her left; modius on garlanded altar between them, ship's stern in background; S C in exergue. RIC I 495; Lyon 184; WCN 445. VF, green patina, light cleaning and smoothing marks.