424, Lot: 452. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.53 g, 1h). Uncertain Balkan/Thracian mint. Struck circa AD 64. Laureate head right / Triumphal arch with wreath hung between pillars surmounted by statuary group of Nero in quadriga, escorted by Victory and Pax and flanked by soldiers; statue of Mars in niche on left side of arch. RIC I –; RPC 1758 = D.W. MacDowall, "Two Roman Countermarks of AD 68," NC (1960), 1 (example with countermark of Galba). Near VF, green surfaces, smoothed and tooled, centration dimple filled.