372, Lot: 633. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ROMAN IMPERIAL. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ ‘Sestertius’ (35mm, 24.85 g, 7h). ‘Paduan’ medal. Later cast after Giovanni da Cavino. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P P P, laureate head right, wearing aegis / Port of Ostia: seven ships within the harbor; at the top is a pharus surmounted by a statue of Neptune; below is a reclining figure of Tiber, holding a rudder and dolphin; to left, crescent-shaped pier with portico, terminating with figure sacrificing at altar and with building; to right, crescent-shaped row of breakwaters or slips, terminating with a figure seated on rock; AVGVSTI above, SPQR OST C below. Johnson & Martini 1389-1405. VF, green patina.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.