Watch List notes:

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.35 g, 5h). 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 225-8; Mazzini 118. Struck slightly off center. Near EF. Attractive red toning, characteristic of aurei from Boscoreale.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 894; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1990), lot 688.