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Lot 5455    Session 16 (9.30am Fri 26 Nov)    Roman Silver & Bronze

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $700

NERO, (A.D. 54-68), silver denarius, issued c.65-66, Rome mint, (3.13 grams), obv. laureate head to right of Nero, around NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, rev. Jupiter seated left on throne, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, IVPPITER CVSTOS around, (cf.S.1943, RIC 45, BMC 74, RSC 119). Some reverse surface roughness, otherwise good very fine and very scarce.

Ex McHugh Collection. The issue is in all probability a reference to Nero's deliverance from the conspiracy of C. Calpurnius Piso in A.D. 65.

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