Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 988. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TIBERIUS. As Caesar, 4-14 AD. Æ Sestertius (25.03 gm, 1h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 12-14 AD. TI CAESAR AVGVSTI F IMPERAT VII, laureate head right / ROM ET AVG in exergue, the Great Altar of Lugdunum: altar enclosure; panels decorated with corona civica flanked by figures holding laurel branches; decoration along roofline; altar flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory standing vis-à-vis, each holding palm and wreath. RIC I 248a (Augustus) var. (IMPERATOR); Auguste de Belfort, "Recherches des monnaies impériales romaines non mentionnées dans l ouvrage de H. Cohen, " ASFN 1884, pg. 46, 43; Lyon 111 var. (same); BMCRE 580 var. (same); BN 1761 (Augustus) var. (same); Cohen 35 var. (same). VF, mottled green and brown patina with traces of brick-red, minor pits in outer areas of fields. Possibly only the second specimen known of this variety. ($3000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 426.