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E-Sale 104  15 Dec 2022
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Lot 888

Estimate: 250 GBP
Price realized: 550 GBP
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Nero Æ Dupondius. Rome, AD 64. NERO CLAVD CAESAR•AVG GERM [P M TR P IMP P P], radiate head to right / View of façade of the Macellum Magnum: male figure holding sceptre standing facing, head to left, in central arch, [MAC AV]G above, S-C across fields, II in exergue. RIC I 186; C. -; BMCRE -; WCN 192. 12.03g, 29mm, 6h.

Good Very Fine. Rare.

From a private UK collection.

Built by Nero in AD 59, the Macellum Magnum on the Caelian Hill (which this issue marks the completion of) was a large market of shops arranged around an indoor courtyard that likely stood on the site now occupied by the church of S. Stefano Rotondo.
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