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Nero Denarius
Struck around 65 CE
3.0 grams.

 

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Provincial Dupondius, Victory advancing on reverse

 

It looks like it is a lovely coin, but it's very hard to see much of your coin monetarium because of the glare off the plastic. I would very much like to see your coin.

 

Sorry about those awful pictures. Here they are again with no plastic glare!

 

Much better. But is that BD in the center of the obverse or just mineral deposit?

 

It is mineral deposit ;(

 

That's good news . It's a nice looking coin and if that had been BD it could have ruined it without treatment.

 

That Janus Temple is going to make a great jigsaw.

 

well,i couldn't take it any more... i just purchased a coin of nero...it's on the way!

 

That's the way. Buy more coins!!

 

Why are you calling it provincial?

 

ok, i just got another!

 

I don't have the exact information now, but when I found it in a British reference book years ago, it said it was minted in one of the many provinces of the empire. Which one, I can't tell you know

 

It looks like a standard Rome mint dupondius to me. There are somewhat scarcer bronzes of Nero from an uncertain Balkan mint, probably Perinthus. These can easily be distinguished by the presence of a centration dimple.

EDIT: make that Lugdunum.

 

I would have called it Lugdunum mint which some people might decide makes it Provincial even though it is a marked dupondius. I'm no 12 Caesars collector but is this really Rome? The ball is small and the photo is fuzzy.

 

I'm sorry. I wasn't paying much attention to what you typed just at the images you posted. Ardatirion is correct. Your coin is not a "provincial". It may well be from Rome or Lugdunum as Doug points out. I'm leaning towards it being:

RIC 477 Nero AE As. Lyons (Lugdunum) mint, 65 AD. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, bare head right, globe at point of bust / S-C, Victory advancing left, holding shield inscribed S P Q R. Cohen 292.

 

Good eye. I didn't see the tip of the bust at first.

 

Hello guys. I have purchased this Nero denarius not long time ago for a very good price. As you can see condition is really good.
Obv: NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS. Laureate head right. Rev: (upside down) VESTA. weight 3.10 gram.
I would like to as you is this coin real or forgery? What do you think?
Thank you in advance

 

Just nitpicking but, uh, isn't Nero facing left on Monetarium's coin? If so, that would make it RIC 478, not 477.

Also, I can't quite see the reverse shield with S P Q R on it. Maybe the picture is just too poor.

 

Monetarium's coin can't be RIC 477 or 478, since you can clearly see AVGVSTI on the right side of the reverse. It appears to be missing VICTORIA on the left side of the reverse since the strike was off-center.

Also, Nero's head could be laureate as well as bare.

We would need (1) much better obverse and reverse pictures, (2) weight, and (3) size to really determine what coin this is.