440, Lot: 280. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GALLIA LUGDUNENSIS(?). Æ Sestertius (37mm, 26.79 g). Countermark applied during the reign of Nero, AD 54-68(?). (
P)ROB(
atvm) in a rectangular countermark on a bronze sestertius of Claudius. Pangerl 23 var. (PROB). Host coin VF, c/m VF, green patina, some stress cracks from countermarking. Unusual variant lacking the first letter.
From the Richard Baker Collection. Ex Empire Coins FPL 55 (Nobember 1990), no. 91.