414, Lot: 404. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero, with Poppaea. AD 54-68. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 12.61 g, 12h). Dated RY 9 (AD 62/63). Laureate head of Nero right / Draped bust of Poppaea Sabina right; before, star; across field, [L] ЄNA (date). Köln 155; Dattari (Savio) 194; K&G 14.73 corr. (obv. legend); RPC I 5267; Emmett 128.9 (R3). VF, toned, some porosity.

Extremely rare issue for the first year of Poppaea being introduced on Nero’s Alexandrian coinage, with Nero still being depicted wearing a laurel wreath versus the radiate crown of later years.