273, Lot: 417. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.02 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. Laureate head right, globe at point of bust / Annona standing right, holding cornucopia, facing Ceres seated left, holding grain-ears and torch; modius on garlanded altar between them, ship's stern behind. RIC I 390. VF, reddish-brown patina.

Ex C.W. Pearson Collection.