Watch List notes:

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 27.25 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 65. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head right, globe at point of neck / PΛCE P R TERRΛ MΛRIQ PΛRTΛ IΛNVM CLVSIT, S C across field, Temple of Janus with latticed windows to left and garland hung across closed double doors to the right. RIC I 438; WCN 419; Lyon 109; BMCRE 319; BN 73; Kampmann 13 (this coin). Near EF, wonderful tan and olive surfaces. Great portrait. Featured in the podcast "Rom, 65 n. Chr." on the MoneyMuseum website..


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Ars Classica XVII (3 October 1934), lot 1278; J. Hirsch XXXI (6 May 1912), lot 1136.