Gemini, LLC Heritage World Coin Auctions > Auction VIII: 14 April 2011
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Gemini, LLC Heritage World Coin Auctions > Auction VIII (with Heritage Auctions)
Auction date: 14 April 2011>Lot number: 287
Price realized: 3,250 USD Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:
Nero. 54-68 AD. Sestertius, 27.12g. (7h). Rome, 64 AD. Obv: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P Bust laureate right, aegis with Medusa head and snakes on front shoulder, another fold behind neck. Rx: ADLOCVT COH in exergue, S - C across field, Nero, togate, standing left on platforn, raising right hand in act of address; behind him, also on the platform, praetorian prefect in tunic standing left; facing Nero are three soldiers standing right, all wearing swords in scabbards by their hips, the first two holding standards; in background above, the wall of the Praetorian camp, not visible on this specimen. BM 124. Paris 272. RIC 135. Cohen 4 corr. (30 Fr.). Fine portrait in high relief. Brown patination. Very rare issue. Slight areas of isolated corrosion on the reverse. In general, pleasant surfaces. VF/Fine.
Ex Dr. Reinaldo Gomez Collection.
While cataloguing this coin, C. Clay observed that the same reverse die had earlier been used without the letters S C: see Munzen und Medaillen 66, 23-24 October 1984, lot 554 and NFA XVI, 2 December 1985, lot 369. It was known that Nero's first issue of bronze coins at Rome omitted the usual letters S C, while his second and later issues, using mainly the same reverse types, included S C, but this is apparently the first time that the letters S C have been observed being added to an actual reverse die, which was accordingly used first in Issue 1 without S C, then latter in Issue 2 with S C! The Munzen und Medaillen coin quoted also proves that the wall of the Praetorian camp in the upper background of the reverse, though invisible on our specimen because of die and specimen wear, was nevertheless present on the die in its original state.
Estimate: US$3500
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