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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7603279, member: 89514&quot;]In BMC I of 1923, Harold Mattingly argued at length for the attribution of Nero&#039;s globe bronzes to Lugdunum, and regarded that conclusion as proven. I think the idea has been generally accepted ever since. Important arguments: according to Strabo, Lugdunum struck gold and silver coins for Augustus and Tiberius. The common ROM ET AVG sestertii and middle bronzes of Augustus and Tiberius as Caesar can also be attributed to Lugdunum, where the altar of Rome and Augustus was located. Finally there is a clear difference in find spots between Nero&#039;s globe bronzes and those without globe. To quote MacDowall in his Western Coinages of Nero, 1979, p. 17: &quot;Finds of Neronian sestertii, dupondii and asses in Britain, Upper and Lower Germany, Belgica, Lugdunensis and Raetia are almost all of the globe type; finds from Narbonensis are predominantly of the globe type; finds from Spain, Noricum, Pannonia and the area east of the Rhine and north of the Danube are divided between the globe and non-globe type; and finds from Italy are almost all of of the non-globe type.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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