Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 868. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.97 gm). Rome mint. Struck circa 63 AD. NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P, laureate head left, globe at point of bust / DECVRSIO in exergue, Nero on horseback right, holding spear; soldier advancing before, head reverted, carrying a vexillum; second soldier running behind horse. RIC I 108; CNR XVIII, 916/4 (this coin); WCN 78; BMCRE 155; BN 258; Cohen 95. EF/Good VF, mottled dark green, light olive, and red patina, some smoothing and a few cleaning marks. ($2500)

Ex Elsen 67 (15 September 2001), lot 392; Franz Trau Collection (Gilhofer & Ranschburg-A. Hess, 22 May 1935), lot 438.