411, Lot: 297. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Britannicus(?). AD 41-55. Æ (1616mm, 3.11 g, 12h). Philistos and Eikadios, magistrates. Struck circa AD 50-54. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Victory advancing right, carrying trophy over shoulder. Klose Type XXXI; RPC I 2476 (Nero as Caesar, under Claudius); SNG Copenhagen 1351; SNG von Aulock 7995. VF, green patina.

The authors of RPC dispute Klose's identification of the head on this coin as Britannicus, favoring instead an identification of Nero. Without an inscription, either could be a possibility.