CNG 105, Lot: 824. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3005. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 27.01 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 66. Laureate head right, globe at point of neck / Nero standing left with praetorian prefect on low platform to right, addressing three soldiers to left, standing right, the first two holding signa; the praetorian camp in the background; ADLOCVT COH in exergue. RIC I 492; WCN 430; Lyon 168/1a (D386/R403). Good VF, green patina, some areas of roughness along edge. Rare.

From the Collection of a Director. Ex Vinchon (23 April 1976), lot 29.