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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24628298, member: 26430&quot;]Do you mean you think it might be a coin of someone other than &quot;the&quot; Nero? </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think that&#039;s possible:</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin names him on the obverse inscription as Nero Caesar (ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ). The inscription &quot;ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ&quot; is not used for anyone except Nero. RPC certainly doesn&#039;t show anyone else besides Nero, Caesar from 50-54/55 CE, using that obverse legend. They and all the major collections and catalogs identify this coin as Nero. (It is also easily recognizable as the same person in all of his other youthful Provincial portraits from the region.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as &quot;Tiberius Claudius Kalligenes&quot;: All that history records about him is on this and one other coin type. He is a local &quot;magistrate&quot; (we don&#039;t really know what the office was called or how it worked all the time, but it&#039;s the official responsible for coinage that year, in that city). We know his name from the reverse legend on your coin: &quot;ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΛΛΙΓΕΝΗΣ&quot;&nbsp; = Ti[berius] Klau[dius] Kalligenes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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