Estimated value? Nero denarius picture inside

Busy obtaining other cool coins for your cool vcoins site? I've been lurking there recently, and soon I'm going to be pouncing on some of your coins.

 

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I try! Summer sucks for selling coins, but also the best time for buying. That's the catch22. Im always broke in summer (which explains why I have a 25% off sale running. I lose money, but it creates income to pay the mortgage!). I am drooling over many coins at auction now, but the prices are just too high for resale. Ah well. Maybe I should go back to just being a humble collector!

 

The seller also has a Vcoins store, all his other coins appear authentic and that coin was sold in 2011 by Heritage Auctions.


http://coins.ha.com/itm/roman-imper...-23306.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

 

The seller is hand delivering the coin to me tomorrow. He said he bought the coin from heritage auctions. He will be giving me a certificate of authenticity. It was listed at about 1,500 on eBay. I threw a offer at him for $750 and he bit. Getting closer to my Caesar portrait collection

 

Congratulations !!!

I think it's a great purchase at about the price you mention.... IMHO $1,500.00 is a dealer's version of market value for a desirable and 'trendy' denarius with the 'radiate' reverse and usually found on slightly higher grade examples.

I'd buy it at the price you quote, especially if that was the cost shipped!!! It always pays to 'make a counter offer'.

 

Thanks mike . Coin is even prettier in person. Tiberius and Claudius are next on my list. This is my nicest denarius of all the Caesars I own.

 

I like very much this reverse type. I'm the lucky owner of an example, but with a very different style of engraving though


Nero, Denarius Rome mint, AD 64/65
NERO CAESAR, laureate head of Nero right
AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS, Nero standing facing, holding branch and victory on globe
3,32 gr
Ref : RCV #1941, Cohen #45, RIC # 47
The following comment, from NFA, auction XX catalog, # 118 :
Nero's coinage reform of A.D. 64 saw a reduction in the weight standard of both the aureus and denarius denominations. A whole new range of reverse types was introduced with an unmistakably imperial flavor, in marked contrast to the senatorial types of the pre-reform coinage. This coin depicts a standing figure of the emperor, wearing the radiate crown of the sun god Sol, holding a branch of peace and a small figure of Victory. An allusion to the settlement of the Parthian question, following Corbulo's successes in Armenia in A.D. 63, seems unmistakable. It is tempting to identify this reverse type with the statue of the sun god, with the facial features of the emperor, erected by Nero in front of his Domus Aurea (Golden House), which was one of the principal features of the reconstruction following the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64. The Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) was later erected on the site of the Domus Aurea's ornamental lake, and received its popular name from its close proximity to Nero's statue

Q

 

I love that coin Q. Wanna trade for a Constantius II LRB?

 

@Cucumbor - Love the reverse of that coin!