Description
Nero, Sestertius, Circa 66, Lugdunum
RIC I Nero 495
Obv.: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX TR POT P P, Head of Nero, laureate, left, small globe at point of neck.
Rev.: ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES S C, Ceres, right, veiled and draped, seated left, holding corn-ears and torch, facing Annona, draped, standing right, right hand resting on hip, left holding cornucopiae, in center, modius on garlanded altar right, behind, ship’s stern.
27.52 g
34 mm
Graded by NGC Ch VF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 2/5, smoothing.
Provenance: American Numismatic Society (ANS); Robert W. Bartlett; Numismatic Fine Arts XVI (2 December 1985), lot 375.
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