Here is my first Nero! Please post any Nero, Hera or anything from Alexandria! EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA. Nero, AD 54-68. Billon Tetradrachm, struck AD 67/68. Obv.: NEPΩ KΛΑΥ Κ-ΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΑΥ; Radiate bust of Nero left wearing aegis, regnal year beneath chin LIΔ (= year 14 = AD 67/68 ). Rev.: HPA APΓΕIΑ; Veiled bust of Hera Argeia right, star in right field. Reference: SNG Cop 132. From the Athelred collection
Congrats @GerardV ! GREaT capture! I dana have one! Love the Hera bust! ALEXANDRIA BCE: Bunch of Ptolemies... but here a couple representatives: Egypt Ptolemy II 285-274 BC AE Obol 20mm 6.7g Alex III Eagle Tbolt SV 601 Egypt Ptolemy III Euergetes 246-222 BCE AE Chalkous 12.0mm 2.0g Zeus-Ammon Eagle Svoronos 840 ex Righetti Collection NERO TETS: RI Poppea-Nero BI tetradrachm of Alexandria LI yr10 63-64 CE Milne 217 RPC 5275 RI Nero AR Tetradrachm 54-68 CE Eagle HERA: Campania CAPUA AE 14-5mm 216-211 BCE Hera Oscan Grain ear Hannibal capital Italia SNG Fr 517 SNG ANS 219 HN Italy 500 EE Clain Stefanelli RI Octavia Augusta AE 27 7.6g 54-62 CE m Nero Thrace Perinthus Hera Samos RPC 1755
That's a lot better than my first Nero It was cheap and I didn't have one, My second try was better. But I actually bought this one for the provencial city and the reverse. PHRYGIA. Acmoneia. Nero, AD 54-68. Æ19, 3.8g, 12h; c. AD 62; Lucius Servenius Capito, archon , with his wife Julia Severa. Obv: NEPON KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ; Laureate head right; crescent before. Rev: ΣEPOYHNIOY KAΠITΩNOΣ KAI IOYLIAΣ ΣEOYHPAΣ AKMONEΩN; Zeus seated left, holding patera and scepter; EΠI APX above; to left, owl standing facing. Reference: RPC 3174.
Nice buy! I still don't have a Nero from Alexandria though I've often been tempted. Whenever I see one of these I recall with a shiver the story of Giovanni Dattari, the famous collector of Roman-Egyptian coins, acquiring and then melting down thousands of Nero tetradrachms because they were so common as to be worth more as bullion. Coin #001 in my coin catalog (one of ten in my first ever purchase of ancients) is this Roman provincial from Antioch.
Nice Nero. I have the following 2 coins of Nero. Nero. AD 54-68. AR Denarius Rome mint. Struck AD 68. (17.68 mm, 3.37 g) Obv: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P P, Laureate head right Rev: Legionary eagle between two standards. RIC I 68 (R2); RSC 356. SRCV (2000) 1947 Ex: CNG e-auction 370 lot 391 March 9, 2016. And this one Nero. A.D. 61. AR denarius (18.40 mm, 3.37 g, 7 h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Obv: NERO CAESAR AVG IMP, bare head right Rev: PONTIF MAX TR P VIII COS IIII P P, EX S C across field, Roma standing right, holding and inscribing shield supported on knee, foot on helmet; dagger and bow at feet to right. RIC 34 (R3); RSC 231. aVF, toned. Rare. From the D. Thomas Collection; Ex Hohn Leipziger Munzhandlung. Auction 85 June 2-4 2016 Lot 1832 Ex: Agora Auctons sale 68 Lot 195 August 15 2017.
Congratulations on your first Nero, Gerard! Emperor Nero is definitely a Roman ruler whose coin is a necessary addition to any ancient coin collection. I have only one bearing his likeness. I have Judaean coins which were struck during his reign but don't have his portrait on them.
Excellent coins everyone! I'm thrilled with the Nero I picked up. To be honest, I didn't think the bid was going to hold.
NERO AE 17 OBVERSE: NERWN KLAYDIOS KAISAR GER, draped bust right REVERSE: QYAT-EIRH/NW-N, labrys (double axe) Struck at Thyateira, Lydia, 55AD 2.97g, 17mm RPC 2381; SNG von Aulock 3216; BMC 58; SNG Copenhagen 595; SNG Munich 612; Weber 6931; Mionnet VII 596; Lindgren I 834 NERO AR Billon Tetradrachm OBVERSE: NERW KLAV KAIS SEB GER, radiate bust right, wearing aegis REVERSE: AVTOKPA, draped bust of Alexandria right in elephant skin headdress, LIB to right, year 12 Struck at Alexandria, Egypt, 65/6AD 10.8g, 28mm Köln 172-174; Curtis 36-54, Dattari 204, SGI 633, RPC 5289.
All these nice Neros drives me to show my worst. Both denarii are fourrees. The first is a partially peeled fourree of the foil technique. The style is good. The reverse has a classic example of a circular seam where the two silver foil sections came together. Wear exposed just enough of the I and V to be 'classic'. I regret there are unattractive deposits on the obverse field on top of the silver. Were it not for that, I would really like this coin as a definitive fourree. The second fourree of Nero is as different as can be. The style is barbarous not resembling Rome at all. The silver was not foil but probably applied by dipping in a molten alloy (eutechtic?) or by tossing hot copper blanks in a powered alloy. I suppose this also is a classic example of what it is but what it is impresses me less. I would like to know where these were made and spent. I have had both for over 25 years.
My first Nero was the AE as type featuring Nero as Apollo Citharoedus that I got from a pick bin for $5... I'm sure my memory represents it as much nicer than it really was, but man, do I regret trading it away! Anyway, don't trade away that first Nero, it is a keeper!! My two Neros now are a Lugdunum sestertius... ... and an AE 17 from Myrina in Aeolis, citing both Nero and his mother Agrippina as gods, ΘΕΩΝ ΝΕΡΩΝΑ CΕΒΑCΤΟΝ and ΘΕAΝ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑΝ:
NERO As: right face Obverse: Nero, bare headed facing right Inscription clockwise from bottom: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TRP P P Reverse: Winged Victory, walking left, holding shield inscribed SPQR Inscription: S -------- C (left and right) Nero As: left face Obverse: Nero, bare headed facing left Inscription clockwise from bottom: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TRP P P Reverse: Winged Victory, walking left, holding shield inscribed SPQR Inscription: S -------- C (left and right)
I think from memory my first Nero was this Ara Pacis Ae AS, a little worn but a very hard to find coin in good nick.
Very nice Nero Gerard and more so since it has passed through the hands of two other great guys here. I've much enjoyed the Nero fest but have none to contribute. Good going on a great coin!
My first Nero, also from Alexandria: Nero and Poppaea Sabina, his second wife Billon Tetradrachm; 23.1 mm, 11.55 g Alexandria, AD 64/65 Obv: ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΑV, radiate head of Nero, right Rev: ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ, draped bust of Poppaea, right, LIA (year 11) before. Refs: RCV 2002; SGI 664; RPC 5280; Köln 168; BMCG 124; Milne 223; Curtis 138; Cohen 315, 3.
[QUOTE="jamesicus, Nero As: left face Obverse: Nero, bare headed facing left Inscription clockwise from bottom: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TRP P P Reverse: Winged Victory, walking left, holding shield inscribed SPQR Inscription: S -------- C (left and right)[/QUOTE] Thats what my first one looked like at one time, atleast close to it. One day I'll upgrade on it. Edit *** the right face Nero for some reason the wrong one copied, no doubt my fault*** But I like the reverse
My first and only Nero. Popped up at my local coin shop for $19. I figured it was worth it to finally get a coin with Nero's portrait.
Great capture from JA auction, indeed Nero and Poppaea, tetradrachm Alexandria mint, AD 63-64 NERO KLAY KAIS SEB TEP AY, radiate head of Nero right TTOTTTTAIA SEBASTH, draped bust of Poppaea right, LI in right field 12.3 gr Ref : RCV # 2002 v, Emmett # 129 Q
