Gemini LLC >Auction >Auction I (11.01.2005)
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Gemini LLC >Auction >Auction I (11.01.2005)
Lot 321 Price :10000 USD
Description
Nero (AD 54-68). Orichalcum sestertius (25.41 gm). Lugdunum, AD 66-68. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX TR POT P P, laureate head left, globe at tip of neck / CONG I DAT POP S C, Nero seated right on curule chair on platform, presiding at his first distribution of money to the Roman people; an official seated before the emperor at a table checks off the name of a citizen who is mounting a ladder to the platform accompanied by his son; a second official holds up the rectangular tablet by means of which the required number of coins was counted out and distributed; in the background, a statue of Minerva holding owl and spear. RIC 503. WCN 446. Rare: not in Cohen or BMC with this obverse legend and portrait left, and recorded by MacDowall in just three specimens, one in the Gnecchi Collection and two others from auction catalogues. Green-gray patina. An attractive extremely fineAlthough it was only commemorated on the coins from AD 64 on, Nero had distributed his first largesse many years earlier, as Caesar under Claudius in AD 51. The tablet held by the second official, misnamed a tessera or abacus in the standard catalogues, was actually a board drilled with a determined number of shallow depressions, each just large enough to hold one denarius. This device could rapidly be filled with coins and then emptied into the toga of the recipient..
Estimate: $12500
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