Watch List notes:

Ex President John Quincy Adams Collection. Sestertius; Ex President John Quincy Adams Collection; Rome, Sestertius, 21.95g. BMC-153, pl. 8.1 (same obv. die); Paris-141; RIC-136 (R ); C-570 (15 Fr.). Obv: DIVVS AVGVSTVS Head laureate r. Rx: IMP NERVA CAESAR AV[GVSTV]S REST around large S C. From the John Whitney Walter Collection, purchased from Harlan Berk, 11 December 1993. Ex Stack's, March 1971, Massachusetts Historical Society, John Quincy Adams, lot 717Bold portrait of the deified Augustus, on his only Rome-mint portrait sestertius, a scarce restored issue of Nerva. The fields have been cleaned with a tool as was common in the 19th century and earlier . EF