108, Lot: 37. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Cnossus. Nero and Octavia. Circa 55-60 AD. Æ 24mm (7.81 gm). Volumnius Lupinus, magistrate. Bare-headed bust of Nero right / Confronted busts of Octavia, facing right with crescent overhead, and Nero, bare-headed with a start overhead. RPC I 1005; Svoronos 217. Fine, brown patina, tooled.

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.

The obverse portrait on this coin appears to be a die duplicate for RPC I 1006, but the obverse legend has been tooled to read as RPC I 1005.