From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.
 Lot # 399 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$5000 / Price 
 Realized: US$5750 
 Nero. Silver denarius 
 
Nero. (54-68 AD). Silver denarius (3.42 gm). Rome, 64-65 AD. NERO 
CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head laureate right / AVGVSTVS AVGVSTA, Nero and 
Poppaea standing left beside each other; Nero is togate and radiate 
and holds patera and scepter; Poppaea is draped and veiled and holds 
patera and cornucopia. BMCRE 54. CBN 201. RIC 45 (R). Cohen 43 (10 
Fr.). Rare: 
Virtually mint state. 

The figures on the reverse  must be Nero and his consort, and the 
issue date of the coin requires that the consort be Poppaea, who was 
made Augusta when she gave birth to a daughter in 63, and who died 
in 66. See Mattingly in BMC, p. clxxiii. 

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  ... Lot 399 sold for high bid of $5750 [ $6612.5, or approx 4562.625 EUR, 3372.375 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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