Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
Summer 2022 Global Showcase Auction 22-26 Aug 2022
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The reverse depicts the Colossus of Nero, a statue with a height of about 100 feet that presents Nero as the sun god Sol. Created for the Domus Aurea, the golden house, a palace constructed by Nero after the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64. Later emperors had the statue modified to merely represent Sol, and less resemble Nero.
From the Jones Collection.
Estimate: $800 - $1200