436, Lot: 535. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (37.5mm, 29.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 63. Laureate head left / CONG DAT [II POP R], Nero on left, seated right on high platform; before him, an official seated right on another platform handing congiarium to togate citizen standing with one foot on a flight of steps, right hand extended, holding fold of toga; on right, small boy stands left; in background, on left, Minerva standing left, holding owl in right hand and spear in left, and, on right, Liberalitas standing right, holding up tessera in right hand. RIC I 100 corr. (obv. legend); WCN 82. VF, dark gray-brown patina, lightly granular surfaces.

Ex RAM Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 1029; Patrick E. Cosgrove Collection (Empire 14, 1 February 1993), lot 52.