Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 874. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.73 gm). Rome mint. Struck circa 64 AD. NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P, laureate and bearded head left / CONG II DAT POP, S C in exergue, Nero seated left in curule chair on raised daïs, extending hand; praefectus annonae standing right, behind; individual standing left, extending hands to receive tessera from figure holding abacus before; statue of Minerva standing left on pedestal, holding owl and sceptre and tetrastyle building behind. RIC I 162; WCN 93; BMCRE 141; BN 282 var. (laureate head right, wearing aegis); Cohen 79. Good VF, attractive orichalcum surfaces, light pitting and scratch on reverse. [See color enlargement on plate 15] ($3000)