Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Nero Æ Sestertius. Lugdunum, AD 66. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX TR POT P P, laureate head left / Garlanded triumphal arch surmounted by statue of Nero in facing quadriga escorted on right by Victory holding wreath and palm and on left by Pax holding caduceus and cornucopiae; just below the quadriga on extreme left and right, two small figures of soldiers; on left side of arch in niche, figure of Mars standing facing, holding spear and round shield; ornamental reliefs on the faces and plinths of the arch. RIC 500; C. 309; BMCRE 333. 26.30g, 36mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; fields gently smoothed, a well-detailed and preserved architectural reverse.
Privately purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, inv. # 719148, February 2000;
Ex William J. Conte Collection (not in the NAC sale), Leu Numismatik AG, Auction 72, 12 May 1998, lot 416.
The triumphal arch depicted on this coin is the Arcus Neronis, a now lost triumphal arch dedicated to the emperor Nero that was erected in the years between A.D. 58 and 62.The arch was commissioned to commemorate the victories won by Nero's great general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in Parthia (Tacitus, Annals 13.41; 15.18). It was located on the side of the Capitoline Hill, and was likely destroyed soon after Nero's death in AD 68.
Extremely Fine; fields gently smoothed, a well-detailed and preserved architectural reverse.
Privately purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, inv. # 719148, February 2000;
Ex William J. Conte Collection (not in the NAC sale), Leu Numismatik AG, Auction 72, 12 May 1998, lot 416.
The triumphal arch depicted on this coin is the Arcus Neronis, a now lost triumphal arch dedicated to the emperor Nero that was erected in the years between A.D. 58 and 62.The arch was commissioned to commemorate the victories won by Nero's great general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in Parthia (Tacitus, Annals 13.41; 15.18). It was located on the side of the Capitoline Hill, and was likely destroyed soon after Nero's death in AD 68.