Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 866. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Dupondius (13.50 gm). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa 66 AD. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR POT P P, laureate head right, globe at point of bust / SECURITAS AVGVSTI, S C in exergue, Securitas seated right, holding sceptre; garlanded altar and torch before. RIC I 520; WCN 519; cf. BMCRE 345 (TR P); cf. BN 190 (laureate head left, globe at point of bust); Cohen 324. Good VF, brown-green patina with underlying orichalcum luster, partial flat strike on obverse. Exceptional, angry portrait. ($500)

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXVIII (23 April 1992), lot 1118.