Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1327. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.49 gm). Rome mint. Struck circa 64 AD. Laureate head left / Annona standing right, holding cornucopiae, and Ceres seated left, holding cornucopiae and grain ears over modius on garlanded altar; bow and branch on ground before; ship's poop in background. RIC I 138; WCN 128; BMCRE 129; Cohen 15 var. (globe at point of bust). Near VF, Tiber patina, roughness on lower obverse, light double strike on reverse, flan crack. ($600)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

For a discussion of this reverse type, see lot 1319 above.