119, Lot: 212. Estimate $400. Sold for $905. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 29.06 g). Rome mint. Struck circa 64 AD. Laureate head left / Nero seated left in curule chair on raised daïs; behind him, praefectus annonae facing; below in front, attendant standin g left handing tessera to citizen standing right; ; in background, Minerva standing before a flat-roofed tetrastyle temple. RIC I 162; Cohen 69. VF, brown surfaces, obverse pitted.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.