Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1398. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Orichalcum Sestertius (25.11 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa 65 AD. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right, globe at point of bust (early form) / ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES, S C in exergue, Annona standing right, hand on hip and holding cornucopiae, and Ceres, seated left with foot on low stool, holding grain ears over modius on garlanded altar, and cornucopiae, vis-à-vis; bow and branch on ground before; ship's poop in background. RIC I 390; WCN 406; Lyon 65; BMCRE 305; BN 70 var. (later globe); Cohen 14. Good VF, green and brown patina, minor roughness in fields, earthen encrustation along edge. ($2000)