Roman Imperial coin – HCR21212

Obverse

Inscription:

NERO CLAVDIV[S] CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P

Design:

Head of Nero, laureate, right

Reverse

Inscription:

CONG II DAT POP

Design:

Nero, bare-headed and togate, seated left on low platform on right, right hand extended; praefectus annonae standing behind; in front, attendant, standing left, giving tessera to a citizen, standing right, with fold of toga extended; in background, Minerva, standing facing, head left, holding an owl in right hand and spear in left; flat-roofed tetrastyle building to left

Information

Period

Roman Imperial

Dynasty

Julio-Claudian

Reign

Nero

Person

Nero

Mint

Rome

Denomination

Sestertius

Material

orichalcum

Technique

struck

Dating

AD 63

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

29.44

Axis

Diameter (mm)

37.4

Acquisition method

bequest

Acquisition collection reference

Rom. Imp. AE I 39

Acquisition date

1834

Source

Francis Douce

Acquisition credit

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.

Reference

RIC I (first edition) : 123

Reference

RIC I (second edition) : 102 var.

Note:

Obverse portrait is a head without aegis; Obverse inscription is NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P, not NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P

Contributors to this coin record

cgallacher, mspencer-brown