CNG 112, Lot: 600. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.32 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64-65. NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / IVPPITER CVSTOS, Jupiter, bare to waist, with cloak around lower limbs, seated left on throne, holding thunderbolt in right hand and vertical scepter in left. RIC I 52; WCN 25; Calicó 412; BMCRE 67-73; BN 213-9; Biaggi 225-6; Jameson –; Mazzini 118. Toned, underlying luster, a few die breaks on obverse, some shallow scratches. Good VF.

Ex Cederlind BBS 172 (18 December 2013), lot 230 (front cover coin); Cederlind BBS 169 (20 May 2013), lot 254 (front cover coin).