Watch List notes:

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 26.68 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66. IMP • NERO • CAESAR • AVG • PONT • MAX • TR • POT • P • P •, laureate head left, globe at point of neck / S C across field, DECVRSIO in exergue, Nero, bareheaded, wearing cuirass and short tunic, on horseback riding right, holding spear in rest in right hand; behind him, soldier on horseback riding right, holding vexillum in right hand sloped over right shoulder. RIC I 508; WCN 448; Lyon 187; BMCRE 316; BN 135-6. Brown patina, minor roughness, short edge split. Near EF.


From the B. G. Collection. Ex Roma V (23 March 2013), lot 698; Glendining (23 November 1966), lot 104.