Watch List notes:

Nero, 54-68. Aureus (Gold, 19 mm, 7.29 g, 7 h), Rome, circa 66-67. IMP NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS Laureate head of Nero to right. Rev. SALVS Salus seated left on throne, holding patera in her right hand. BMC 94. Calicó 445. Cohen 317. RIC 66. With a splendid portrait and a most attractive reddish Boscoreale toning. Nearly extremely fine.


Ex Triton XIX, 5 January 2016, 499, from the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Carl Subak, May 1986, and very probably from the Boscoreale hoard found in 1895.