Exceptional Nero Portrait

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 584. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nero. AD 54-68. AR Denarius (3.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64-65. NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / ROMA, Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory left in extended right hand, parazonium by side, resting right foot on helmet; round and oblong shields, with greaves, behind. RIC I 55; WCN 59; RSC 258; BMCRE 83-85; BN 224. Superb EF, lightly toned, traces of deposits. Exceptional portrait.