Watch List notes:

Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.65 g, 4h). Rome mint. Struck AD 60-61. NERO • CAESAR • AVG • IMP •, bare head right / PONTIF • MAX TR P VII COS IIII P P, EX S C across field, Virtus, helmeted, in military dress, standing left, right foot on helmet among shields, holding parazonium in right hand resting on right knee, vertical spear in left hand. RIC I 25; WCN 12; Calicó 429; BMCRE 27-8; BN 35-6; Biaggi 233; Jameson –; Mazzini 219. Toned, underlying luster, faint hairlines on reverse. EF. Bold portrait struck in high relief.

From the collection of Professor David R. Beatty, C.M., O.B.E. Ex collection of a European Scholar lately Deceased (LHS 97, 10 May 2006), lot 6 (hammer CHF 14,000); Leu 65 (21 May 1996), lot 333.