388, Lot: 392. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As (26mm, 9.06 g, 12h). Balkan mint (Perinthus?). Struck circa AD 64-66. Laureate head right / Neptune standing left, holding trident and dolphin; S C to either side. RIC I (old edition) 441; RIC I (new edition) –, but see discussion on pp. 186-7; RPC I 1760. VF, dark green and brown patina, roughness and some smoothing. Rare.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.

This reverse type is derived from the Neptune type of Agrippa struck under Caligula.