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Message:: [QUOTE="Jay GT4, post: 3473009, member: 88526"]Nice coin! Nero's coinage feature Augustus, Tiberius and Claudius, especially early in his reign. Obviously he left out Gaius (Caligula). He's showing that he is a part of the Julio-Claudian clan and is worthy of the purple.  He also commemorated the battle of Actium  and included divinities among other things on his Alexandrian tetradrachms. [ATTACH=full]923880[/ATTACH]NEΡΩ KΛAΥ KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEΡ AΥradiate bust left with aegis LIΔ year ΠOΣEIΔΩN IΣΘMIOΣbust of Poseidon right, wearing taenia, trident behind shoulder 14.21gAlexandria mint, 29 Aug 67 - 9 Jun 68 A.D Dattari 244; Milne 298; Curtis 152, Sear 2014 Ex-Zurgieh This type is from a series of tetradrachms depicting and naming a variety of Greek deities; issued to commemorate Nero's sojourn in Greece in 67 - 68 A.D [ATTACH=full]923881[/ATTACH]NEPΩ KΛAV KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AVRadiate bust left, wearing aegis. Date LIΔ. ΠYΘEIOΣ AΠOΛΛΩN.Laureate bust of Apollo Aktios right, quiver over shoulder; star before. Alexandria mint, Year 14= 67-68 AD 12.18g RPC 5318, Köln 195; Dattari 207; Milne 300; Emmett 111 [ATTACH=full]923883[/ATTACH] Nero with Divus ClaudiusNERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERMA Laureate head of Nero right DIVOS CLAVD AVGVST GERMANIC PATER AVGLaureate head of Divus Claudius right. Caesarea, Cappadocia 63-64 AD 2.95g RPC I 3648; RIC 622. From the collection of K.M. Germany. Ex-Roma E-sale 43 lot 334[/QUOTE]