115, Lot: 363. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS, father of Claudius. Died 9 BC. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 27.96 gm). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 41-42 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 93 (Claudius); BMCRE 157 (Claudius); Cohen 8. Near VF, dark green, almost black, patina, minor smoothing in fields.

From the Ruben Gittes Collection.