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264, Lot: 390. Estimate $200.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 29.71 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64. Laureate head right, wearing aegis / Triumphal arch. RIC I 143; WCN 126. Fine, dark brown surfaces.


This monumental triumphal arch was erected by Nero to commemorate Roman military campaigns against the Parthians in Mesopotamia and Armenia. Although not particularly successful in a military sense, with Paetus losing almost his entire army at Randeia in Armenia, the war did end with a peace treaty favorable to Rome that was upheld for nearly fifty years. This coin type is vitally important for architectural historians, for the arch was dismantled after Nero's ignominious end in AD 68, and is only known through its depiction on the coins.