Watch List notes:

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.20 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64-65. NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / IVPPITER CVSTOS, Jupiter, bare to waist, with cloak around lower limbs, seated left on throne, holding thunderbolt in right hand and vertical scepter in left. RIC I 52; WCN 25; Calicó 412; BMCRE 67-73; BN 213-21; Biaggi 226 (same dies); Mazzini 118. Good VF. Attractive red toning, characteristic of aurei from Boscoreale.


From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi, 2 June 2007. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 435.