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Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 26.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. Laureate head right / Two mules grazing, one left, one right; behind, high-wheeled cart, with pole and harness (collars and traces), tipped up and pointing slightly to right. RIC II 93; Banti 44. Brown surfaces, light pitting, minor smoothing. VF. Rare.
Ex RAM Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 1067, purchased from R. M. Smythe, April 1999; Numismatic Fine Arts IX (10 December 1980), lot 470.
Nerva attempted to relieve some of the burdens that had been imposed on the people of Italy by his predecessor, Domitian. One of his acts was the assumption of the costs of the imperial post by the Roman government, a burden which had formerly fallen on the municipalities. Though this event is celebrated on this coin, no contemporary writers mention the act.
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