Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1378. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS, father of Germanicus and Claudius. Died 9 BC. Æ Sestertius (24.98 gm, 7h). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 42-43 AD. Bare head left / Claudius seated left on curule chair, holding branch and roll; weapons and armor on either side of globe beneath. RIC I 109 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 72; BMCRE 208 (Claudius); Cohen 8. VF, brown patina, magnification reveals some light scratches. Scarce. ($500)

Ex Superior Stamp & Coin (5 December 1999), lot 1718.