ROME
Nero (54-68)
Aureus, 7.02g, Rome, laureate head right, NERO CAESAR, rev. Nero standing facing, radiate head in toga, holding a branch and a Victory on a globe, AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS (RIC I, 46 ; BMC 56).
The reverse depicts Nero's colossus, an impressive 30 meter high statue as the god Sol, carved by Zenodorus for the Domus Aurea.
Rare, probably from a mount, scratches, about very fine.