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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24623449, member: 26430&quot;]I don&#039;t see any problems with the coin itself, though the photos aren&#039;t really clear enough to know for sure. But my initial reaction would be that it looks like a legit ancient struck denarius. (If really concerned you could go hunting through ACSearch <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=nero+salus+denarius&amp;category=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=nero+salus+denarius&amp;category=1" rel="nofollow">for die matches to genuine ones</a> or FAC <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/thumbnails.php?search=nero+denarius+salus&amp;submit=search&amp;album=search&amp;title=on&amp;newer_than=&amp;caption=on&amp;older_than=&amp;keywords=on&amp;type=AND" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/thumbnails.php?search=nero+denarius+salus&amp;submit=search&amp;album=search&amp;title=on&amp;newer_than=&amp;caption=on&amp;older_than=&amp;keywords=on&amp;type=AND" rel="nofollow">for matches to fake ones</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice set of Provincial Nero&#039;s, [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>This may be my only Alexandrian Nero, a Tetradrachm with an Apollo reverse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565851[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>My favorite Nero Provincials</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p>First pair are from Thessaly. This one shows Nero on the back in the guise of Apollo playing a kithara / lyre. (There&#039;s also an As/Dupondius version, famously described by Suetonius in his 12 Caesars history.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to think of this as Nero fiddling while Rome burns... He actually was doing that, but not in Rome! He returned from a &quot;Games trip&quot; to find the city on fire:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565848[/ATTACH]</p><p>Burrer &quot;Plate Coin&quot; (click to enlarge), this coin is illustrated as A1 / R1:</p><p>[ATTACH]1565846[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next one is with a Taurokathapsia (Greek bull wrestling) scene on the reverse. These were surely struck after Nero&#039;s tour of the Greek games c. 64, and his &quot;liberation of Achaea&quot; (which included Thessaly at that time):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565849[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One from Phrygia, Eumenia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565847[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another Phrygian one, this time Acmoneia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565850[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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