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342, Lot: 518. Estimate $750.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. As Caesar, AD 4-14. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.25 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 13-14. Laureate head of Tiberius left / ROM ET AVG in exergue, the Great Altar of Lugdunum: altar enclosure; panels decorated with corona civica flanked by figures holding laurel branches; decoration along roof line; altar flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory standing vis-à-vis, each holding palm and wreath. RIC I 248b (Augustus); Lyon 112. Good Fine, red-brown patina, weak in spots, minor roughness. Very rare.


From the RAM Collection, purchased from Nick Economopoulos, January 1992.