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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Codera, post: 26112244, member: 70631&quot;]So recently I just bought this Alexandrian tetradrachm of Nero which I thought had a great portrait with an appropriately dour, angry expression (almost foreshadowing Caracalla) for someone who&#039;s often described as one of the worst emperors in Roman history.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1665541[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nero</b></p><p><b>Bi Tetradrachm </b></p><p><b>10.50 grams</b></p><p><b>Alexandria mint</b></p><p><b>Year 11 (64-65 AD)</b></p><p><b>Obverse: Radiate bust, wearing aegis</b></p><p><b>Reverse: Diademed, veiled and draped bust of Hera Argeia</b></p><p><b>Emmett 122</b></p><p><b>VF, Toned. </b></p><p><b>Porous, as expected. A bit glossy.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>With this purchase I basically completed the first half of the Twelve Caesars covering the Julio-Claudians. I just recently got a heavily worn Antioch bronze of Otho from a multiple coin lot so that&#039;s 7 down and 5 to go covering Galba, Vitellius and the Flavians. I don&#039;t have the budget to cover all the emperors in a single denomination like denarii or anything like that so it&#039;s a silver/base metal mix of both imperials/provincials (it&#039;s nice to have a variety of different types of coins in my collection anyway to cover the breadth of ancient currency) and for Julius Caesar I had to resort to a posthumous coin (half of one anyway) which at least had his portrait on it. I started putting this together last year and it&#039;s been very fun to assemble so far!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1665542[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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