Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 729. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TIBERIUS. As Caesar, 14-37 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.91 g, 1h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 8-10 AD. Laureate head right / Front elevation of the Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, flanked by nude male figures; to left and right, Victories on columns, facing one another; c/m: IMP in incuse square. RIC I 241a (Augustus); Lyon 99 (Augustus); BMCRE 570 (Augustus); Cohen 29; for c/m: Pangerl 18a. Fine, brown surfaces, overall porosity; c/m: VF. Rare. ($750)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 1093.

The first portrait of Tiberius on an imperial issue.