445, Lot: 418. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.68 g, 5h). “Tribute Penny” type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 6, AD 36-37. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head right; long, parallel ribbons, caricature portrait / PONTIF MΛXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, feet on footstool, holding spear in right hand and olive branch in left; ornate chair legs, single line below. RIC I 29 var. (scepter); Lyon 153; Calicó 305c var. (same); BMCRE 46-7 var. (same); cf. BN 22; Biaggi 170 var. (same); cf. Mazzini 15*. Good VF, toned, a few minor marks and shallow scratches, edge marks.