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Auction 121  6-8 Oct 2022
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Lot 799

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 7500 USD
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Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.68 g, 6h). 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; Mazzini 219; CNR XVI, 157 (this coin). Attractive red toning characteristic of aurei from Boscoreale. Good VF.

From the Conti Collection. Ex Berk BBS 176 (8 September 2011), lot 24; Sotheby's (6 October 1994), lot 25; Varesi FPL 1 (1974), no. 1.
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