Nero (AD 54-68). AV aureus (18mm, 7.36 gm, 5h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5, Boscoreale Toning. Rome, ca. AD 64-65. NERO CAESAR-AVGVSTVS, laureate head of Nero right, lightly bearded / IVPPITER-CVSTOS, Jupiter enthroned left, bare to waist, cloak around lower limbs, thunderbolt downward in right hand, grounded scepter in left. RIC I 52. Calicó 412b. Thick, later portrait on toned, lustrous flan with deep red, orange and violet hues. From the WTR Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 114 (13 May 2020), lot 759; Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 38 (6 June 1996), lot 894; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1990), lot 682

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