Cancelled Nero Countermark

439, Lot: 229. Estimate $300. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA & THRACE. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 28.77 g). Countermarks applied under Nero, 54-68, and Galba, April–June AD 68. GALBA, [(NE)R•C•(IMP)] (cancelled) in rectangular countermark, and head (of Claudius?) left in circular countermark on a sestertius of Claudius. Pangerl 86 for Galba; Pangerl –; Martini 1.4012 for Nero; Pangerl –; cf. Martini 1.4087. Host Fair, c/m’s VF, brown patina.

From the Richard Baker Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 1524.