Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 556. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. As Caesar, AD 50-54. AR Denarius (3.66 g, 10h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 51. NERO CLAVD CAES DRVSVS GERM PRINC IVVENT, bare-headed and draped bust left / [SA]CERD COOPT IN OMN CONL SVPRA N[VM EX S C], on left, simpulum above tripod; on right, lituus above patera. RIC I 77 (Claudius); von Kaenel type 52; Lyon 87 (Claudius); RSC 312; BMCRE 87 (Claudius); BN 93 (Claudius). Good VF, toned, a few light marks beneath tone, reverse a little off center. Choice portrait of young Nero.

From the White Mountain Collection.