CNG 112, Lot: 599. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (36.5mm, 24.37 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 67. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P P, laureate head right, globe at point of neck / PACE P R TERRA MARIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT, S C across field, Temple of Janus, with latticed windows to left and garland hung across closed double doors to right. RIC I 584; WCN 481; Lyon 278; BMCRE –; BN –. a lovely hard dark green patina blending to green-brown below the obverse bust, Minor smoothing. EF. Struck on a broad flan. Rare with head left.