From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008. Lot # 416 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$6000 / Price Realized: US$7500 Nerva. (96-98 AD). Orichalcum sestertius (27.26 gm). Rome, 97 AD. IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P, head laureate right / FORTVNA AVGVST S C, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. BMCRE 107. CBN 98. RIC 83. Cohen 67 (5 Fr.). Wonderful portrait of Nerva on a broad flan with a glossy green patina. Some areas of minor porosity. Extremely fine. © 2005-2008 Gemini, LLC | Email: info@geminiauction.com ... Lot 416 sold for high bid of $7500 [ $8625, or approx 5951.25 EUR, 4398.75 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)