Sale: Triton X, Lot: 608. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (28.17 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 98. IMP NERVA CAES AVG GERM P M TR P II, laureate head right / FORTVNA AVGVST, S C across field, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder in right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm. Cf. RIC II 105/98 (obv./rev.); cf. Banti 27/19 (obv./rev); BMCRE -; Cohen -. Good VF, green patina, minor reverse roughness, a hint of smoothing in obverse fields. Exceptional portrait.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.