Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1364. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (25.12 g, 11h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 9-14. 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. RIC I 231a. Near VF, red-brown patina, traces of green, minor roughness. Rare.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.