66, Lot: 79. Estimate $500. Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 24.75 gm). Lugdunum mint. Struck circa 65 AD. Laureate head left, globe at point of neck / Ceres on right seated left, holding grain ears and torch, facing Annona standing right, holding cornucopiae; between them, modius on garlanded altar; behind, ship's stern. RIC I 391; WCN 412; Cohen . Near VF, brown surfaces, some smoothing, nick on edge.

From the Paul McIlroy Collection.