CNG 111, Lot: 485. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN WESTERN EUROPE. Æ As (31mm, 12.68 g). Countermark applied late 1st century AD. PR countermark on an as of Nero. Pangerl – (but cf. 87 for an example in a rectangular countermark); CNG E-438, lot 346. Host VF, c/m VF, green and brown patina, some roughness, stress crack. Rare countermark on a well preserved host coin.

From the Richard Baker Collection, purchased 2003.