Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 744. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.48 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 65 AD. Laureate head right, globe at point of bust / Roma seated left on cuirass, foot on helmet, holding Victory and parazonium; shields on ground behind. RIC I 398; Lyon 69; BMCRE 324; Cohen 261. Good VF, brown patina, hairline flan crack, minor smoothing, light roughness on reverse. Well-centered on a broad medallic flan. ($1500)