Watch List notes:

Nero. As Caesar, AD 50-54. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.55 g, 11h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck under Claudius, AD 51. NERONI • CLAVDIO • DRVSO • GERM • COS • DESIGN •, bareheaded and draped bust of young Nero right / EQVESTER/ OR DO/ PRINCIPI/ IVVENT in four lines on a shield; behind it, a vertical spear, point upward. RIC I 78 (Claudius); von Kaenel Type 53, 964 (V821/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Lyon 88 (Claudius); Calicó 407 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 90-2 (Claudius); BN 94-5; Adda 29; Biaggi 223; Mazzini 96. A few marks and edge bruises, die break on reverse, some earthen deposits. Good VF. Struck from the same obverse die as the example in The Bibliothèque Royale Albert I in Brussels.

From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex Berk BBS 195 (29 October 2015), lot 18.