Ex Niggeler Collection

436, Lot: 539. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 65-66. Laureate head right / Salus seated left on throne, holding patera in extended right hand, resting laft arm at side, SALVS in exergue. RIC I 59; Calicó 443; BMCRE 87-9; BN 225; Biaggi 242-3. VF, light mark on cheek, reddish toning characteristic of the Boscoreale Hoard of 1895.

Ex Walter Niggeler Collection (Part 3, Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen AG, 2 November 1967), lot 1122.