Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Nero Æ Mirror Case. Likely imitating an issue of Lugdunum, circa AD 65. In two pieces which would have once been joined by pins to hold the mirror surface, the front a recognisable sestertius obverse of the following type:
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right, with globe at point of bust. For prototype coin, cf. RIC 387, 390, 392, 394, 396 & 398; for further discussion of Neronian mirrors, cf. Paul-André Besombes, "Les mirroirs de Néron," RN 153 (1998), pp. 119-40.14.63g, 33mm.
Condition as seen.
Export permit approved by the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Mirror cases such as the present piece were often designed in imitation of the genuine coins of the period, and sometimes were even made from them.
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right, with globe at point of bust. For prototype coin, cf. RIC 387, 390, 392, 394, 396 & 398; for further discussion of Neronian mirrors, cf. Paul-André Besombes, "Les mirroirs de Néron," RN 153 (1998), pp. 119-40.14.63g, 33mm.
Condition as seen.
Export permit approved by the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Mirror cases such as the present piece were often designed in imitation of the genuine coins of the period, and sometimes were even made from them.