Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.36 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 213-9; Biaggi 225-6; Mazzini 118; Morgan 59 (this coin); CNR XVI, 62 (this coin). Toned, underlying luster. EF.
From the collection of Professor David R. Beatty, C.M., O.B.E. Ex CNG Inventory 719073 (March 2000); Michael F. Price Collection (Stack's, 3 December 1996), lot 134; J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (Stack's, 14 September 1983), lot 55, purchased by Morgan between 1907 and 1913; Marquis Carlo Strozzi Collection (Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907), 1837 bis.