432, Lot: 298. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Dupondius (27mm, 15.24 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 66. IMP NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P [sic], radiate head of Nero right / Temple of Janus with closed doors left and latticed window right. RIC 338 var. (legend); WCN 229 var. (same). VF, brown patina over toned brassy surfaces; reddish cuprite on face a little smoothed. Evidently an unrecorded legend variant, with the obverse legend ending TR P without P P (for Pater Patriae).