Nero (AD 54-68). AE sestertius (37mm, 29.46 gm, 7h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 2/5, Fine Style, light smoothing. Rome, ca. AD 63. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head of Nero lef6t / CONG II-DAT POP, Nero, bare headed and togate, seated right on curule bench on platform; official seated right on another platform extending congiarium to citizen on stairs with small boy behind him, Minerva (on left) standing facing in background, head left, owl in right hand, spear in left, and Liberalitas (on right) standing facing in background, head left, coin counter upward in right hand. RIC I 100 corr. (obverse legend 34). Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 436 (23 January 2019), lot 535; RAM Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 1029; Patrick E. Cosgrove Collection (Empire 14, 1 February 1993), lot 52 This series is the first appearance of the Liberalitas scene on Roman coinage.

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