Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 872. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $875. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Dupondius (14.45 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 65 AD. Laureate head left, globe at point of bust / Façade of the Macellum Magnum: statue standing facing on base within cylindrical tetrastyle entrance set on tiered base, upper tristyle story surmounted by ornate conical dome; two-story tristyle porch on either side. RIC I 402; Lyon 85; BMCRE 336; Cohen 129. VF, dark green patina with patches of red, obverse smoothed. ($500)