130, Lot: 323. Estimate $750. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 28.30 g). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 65 AD. Laureate head left, globe at point of bust / Ceres seated left, holding grain ears in right hand and torch in left, facing Annona who stands right holding cornucopiae; between them is a modius set on an altar and a ship's stern. RIC I 431; WCN 423; BMCRE 307; Cohen 15. VF, green patina, fields lightly smoothed.