Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 980. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (27.88 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head left, globe at truncation of neck / Annona standing right, holding cornucopia, facing Ceres seated left, holding grain ears and torch; between them, modius on garlanded altar, ship’s stern in background. RIC I 389; WCN 404; Lyon 62. Good VF, dark brown and green patina, traces of smoothing, minor striking flaws on reverse.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 114 (4 March 2002), lot 236.