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Nero. 54-68 AD. AE 22-24, 11.48g. (12h). Akko-Ptolemais, Phoenicia, After 60 AD. Obv: NER CAES AVG - COS IIII IMP XIIII P P Head laureate right, lituus in field before neck. Rx: DIVOS [CLAVD GER FELIX] around, PTOL upside down in exergue, C - O - L - C - C ST across field, Divus Claudius as founder plowing right with ox and cow; behind, four vexilla representing the four legions whose veterans were settled in the colony. RPC 4749 (9 spec.). VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex Coin Galleries MBS, 14 April 1999, lot 284.
An interesting reverse type commemorating Claudius' settlement of army veterans and establishment of a Roman colony at Ptolemais between 50/51 AD and the end of his reign. As Harry Sneh observed, this well preserved specimen allows two improvements in our description of the obverse: first, the obverse legend begins with just NERO, not IMP NERO, suggesting production before Nero's acceptance of the praenomen IMP in 66 AD, a question left open by RPC; second, there is a lituus before Nero's neck which has not previously been noticed, though it is faintly visible in the RPC illustration too (pl. 172, 4749) and on other specimens found online.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex Coin Galleries MBS, 14 April 1999, lot 284.
An interesting reverse type commemorating Claudius' settlement of army veterans and establishment of a Roman colony at Ptolemais between 50/51 AD and the end of his reign. As Harry Sneh observed, this well preserved specimen allows two improvements in our description of the obverse: first, the obverse legend begins with just NERO, not IMP NERO, suggesting production before Nero's acceptance of the praenomen IMP in 66 AD, a question left open by RPC; second, there is a lituus before Nero's neck which has not previously been noticed, though it is faintly visible in the RPC illustration too (pl. 172, 4749) and on other specimens found online.