Watch List notes:

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.69 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 62-63. NERO • CAESAR • AVG • IMP •, bare head right / PONTIF MAX TR P VIIII COS IIII P P around, EX S C across field, Virtus, helmeted, in military dress, standing left, right foot on helmet, holding parazonium in right hand and resting it on right knee, and holding vertical scepter in left; a pair of shield to left. RIC I 36; WCN 18; Calicó 435; BMCRE 40-1; BN 45; Biaggi 236. Good VF, toned.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Ferruccio Bolla Collection (Tkalec, 28 February 2007), lot 17, purchased privately from Leu in 1956.