Nero caesar, 50 – 54

Cistophorus, Ephesus circa 51, AR 26 mm, 11.34 g. NERONI CLAVD CAES DRVSO GERM Bare-headed and draped bust l. Rev. COS DES / PRINC / IVVENT inscribed on round shield within laurel-wreath. C 82. BMC Claudius 236. RIC Claudius 121 (Pergamum). Mazzini 82 (this coin). CBN Claudius 307. RPC 2225.
Very rare. A gentle portrait and a wonderful old cabinet tone,
minor marks, otherwise good very fine

Ex Santamaria 1 January 1949, Magnaguti, 517; M&M 66, 1984, 550 and NAC 101, 2017, 129 sales. From the Mazzini collection and from a Scandinavian private collection.