Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64.

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Roman Imperial, Bronze

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Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Nero on horseback riding left, holding spear; to right, soldier on horseback riding left, holding vexillum. RIC I 165; WCN 109. Brown patina with areas of red, light scrape and roughness on obverse, some flan flaws. VF. Clear decursio scene on reverse.

The decursio was a military training exercise which acquired ceremonial pageantry. The decursio Troiae was an equestrian event and may have been connected to the earlier Republican transvectio equitum, a ceremony Augustus reinstituted. A similar decursio appears on the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius.

Closing Date and Time: 21 July 2021 at 12:20:20 ET.