Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1406. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO, with POPPAEA. 54-68 AD. Æ 23mm (10.72 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. M. Acilius Aviola, proconsul of Asia; Aechmocles, magistrate. Struck 65 AD. NERWN, above, POPPAIA below, E-[F] across fields, diademed and draped bust of Poppaea right and laureate head of Nero left, vis-à-vis / AOUIOLA ANQUPATW AICMOKLHC, RW-MH across fields, draped bust of Tyche-Roma right, wearing mural crown; below bust, bee right. Stumpf 287; RPC I 2629; BMC 213-214; SNG München 118; SNG Copenhagen 377; SNG von Aulock 1642. Near EF, dark green patina, very minor smoothing in fields. ($500)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (4 April 2001), lot 803.