I Went Shopping for an Augustus and Decided on a Nero Instead

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  1. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

    Last week I went looking for an Augustus provincial to add to my collection and I encountered this fine Nero. I admired it briefly online and then continued my search for "Augie". Nothing really jumped out at me so I returned for a second look at Nero. I decided I had to have a decent Nero. I have a cartoonish provincial Nero which does not do the man justice. Anyway, I went ahead and clicked the pay button. My Nero denarius arrived today along with an outstanding Vespasian denarius which I will post later.

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  3. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    That is a fantastic portrait of Nero. He looks very regal. Well done.

    Here's my Nero again.

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  4. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    A handsome example and better reverse type.

    I own many Neros, all Tets. Here is the favorite.

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    Nero (54 - 68 A.D.)
    Seleucis & Pieria, Antioch
    AR Tetradrachm 
O: NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GER, laureate head of Nero right; star behind.
R: [DIVOS] CLAVD AVG GERMANIC PATER AVG, laureate head of Claudius right.
    Syrian Mint - 63-68 AD
    14.11g
    26mm
    Prieur 48; RPC I 4123; BMC 172; Sydenham 65 (Caesarea); RSC 2; McAlee 270.
     
  5. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    O wow D Ray... that's IS a very nice Nero!...not a "run of the mill" type reverse either!...kooL!..
     
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  6. Gavin Richardson

    Gavin Richardson Well-Known Member

    That die engraver had a lot of fun with Nero’s hair. Great coin.
     
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  7. David Atherton

    David Atherton Flavian Fanatic

    Awesome Nero with an iconic reverse. Congrats!
     
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  8. Orfew

    Orfew Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

    Very nice @Deacon Ray I love that reverse type. I have had one on my list for a while, but there is much competition for them when they show up. As to looking for an Augustus and finding a Nero, sometimes you have to take what the market gives.

    Here are my
    Neros.

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  9. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    I always love it when I go to a coin show and come home with something I did not previously know I wanted or even something I did not know existed. Saturday, I was going trough a box of 2nd century bronzes and saw what my first glance identified as a lousy grade Trajan column as. Looking closer I discovered I did not know every way you can stack a club and lion skin. When I got home, I discovered it is a common enough type but I am not a Trajan scholar or close to it so there was plenty of room to learn something. The market gave:
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  10. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Fantastic addition to your Roman collection, Deacon. Great portrait and interesting reverse.
     
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  11. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    I love it, D-Ray! Not the usual reverse. They look like a couple of bedraggled hitchhikers :D.

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  12. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

    Awesome work!!!:hilarious:
     
  13. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    For this Nero billon tetradrachm minted in Alexandria, regnal year 13, 66 - 67 AD, some references describe the reverse as head of Divus Augustus, others as head of Tiberius.

    22 x 25 mm, 12.19 g;
    Ref.: RPC I 5294; BMC 112; Curtis 65
    Obverse: NEPΩ KΛAY KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP A(Y) Radiate head of Nero to left, wearing aegis Regnal year LIΓ (= year 13 corresponding to 66/67 AD) to left
    Reverse: ΘEOΣ ΣEBAΣTOΣ Radiate head to right

    The picture below is not mine, it is from the web; haven't been able to take a good picture.

    Question, is it Tiberius or Augustus???
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  14. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    BEAUTIFUL portrait and very cool reverse!
    It says empress... but that looks more to me like the poor red headed castrato that Nero took with him everywhere as he thought the boy looked like the even more poor Poppaea Sabina whom he'd kicked to death while pregnant. Talk about a ruler, kick your preggers wifers to death and then pick out a youth to mutilate and pretend he is she. And then for the grand finale... kill your mom.
    That or the propagandists were particularly hard on the young man (though I did leave out the whole fiddling whilst Rome burns thing as it very well may have been the Christians).
    Anywho (he said awkwardly. Realizing he may have slightly defemated one of the good ones. Remember, the 1st 4 years of Nero's reign he was one of the very best of em),
    Here's what I have:
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    Nero
    AR Denarius, Salus reverse
    Nero (54-68). AR Denarius
    (16-18 mm, 3.00 g), Rome,
    c. AD 65-66.
    Obv. NERO CAESAR
    AVGVSTVS, Laureate head
    right.Rev. Salus seated left
    on throne, holding patera;
    SALVS in exergue.
    RIC I 60.
    Old collection toning
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    NERO
    54-68 CE. AE Dupondius of
    Lugdunum, 66. Laureate
    head / Securitas seated with
    sceptre. RIC.445
     
  15. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    Hey @Deacon Ray , that one nice Nero...Augustus and just wait for a bit.

    I don't remember what I was looking for when I got this coin, but I immediately grabbed this one instead!

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    Egypt. Alexandria. Nero. 54-68 AD. Billon Tetradrachm

    Dated year 10 (63/4 AD). Obv.: radiate head right. Rev.: draped bust of Serapis right, wearing calathus; LI in lower right field. Milne 222, 25 mm, 13.4g
     
  16. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

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  17. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    It's Augustus. The Nero tets with Tiberius reverse have the legend TIBEPIOΣKAIΣAP.
     
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  18. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    Thank you very much TIF for your answer :)
     
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  20. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

    "Finding Nero" has a catchy sound to it. I realize that it sounds like the Disney film about the cute fish o_O Anyway, I wanted to congratulate you, Mr. @Orfew , on your beautiful collection of Nero denarii.
     
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  21. Gary R. Wilson

    Gary R. Wilson ODERINT, DUM METUANT — CALIGULA

    Nice coin Deacon Ray. I'm in the process of looking for a Nero denarius to add to my collection. I just got this coin which at first glance looks like a common Temple of Janus As. But on further inspection, the reverse is a scarce type with the SC in the exergue.

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