271, Lot: 62. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. As Caesar, AD 50-54. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.79 g, 7h). Thracian mint. Struck AD 51-54. NERONI CLAVDIO DRVSO GERMANICO COS DESIGN, bareheaded and draped bust right / EQVESTER/OR DO/PRINCIPI/IVVENT in four lines on shield; vertical spear behind. RIC I 108; von Kaenel, Thrakien Type A, N4, pl. 25, 38 (this coin, illustrated); BMCRE p. 195 note, pl. 37, 4; Cohen 99. VF, green patina. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica I (19 May 1999), lot 1742; Sternberg 12 (18 November 1982), lot 543.