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Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As (23.5mm, 7.56 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, radiate head right / GENIO AVGVSTI, S C across field, Genius, naked except for cloak around waist, standing left, holding cornucopia in left hand and sacrificing out of patera in right hand over lighted altar; I (mark of value) in exergue. RIC I 215; WCN 276; BMCRE 251; BN 328-9. Attractive green patina. Near EF. Wonderful reverse.
From the PLZ Collection, purchased from Antiqua. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 347.
The origin of the Genius Augusti (“spirit of Augustus”) for Imperial Rome dates back to Augustus. This changed the Genius from a personal attribute to that of the emperor himself, and in turn all the people under his leadership. Altars of the “Genii” have been found all over the Roman Empire.
The coin offered here has an attractive green patina with an exceptional reverse. This type, with the radiate head of Nero, would normally imply the denomination is a dupondius. The weight range however, somewhere between 7 and 8 grams, would place it as an As.
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