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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3102448, member: 80783&quot;]...on June 9, 68 a.D., Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus called out his famous last words: &quot;qualis artifex pereo&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>For this occasion, bring out you favorite coin of Nero! Here is mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785356[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head of Nero right.</p><p>PACE P R TERRA MARIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT, view of the ‘Twin Janus’ (<i>ianus geminus</i>) in the Roman Forum, showing closed double doors and one side wall (to the left) with latticed window running along its entire length about halfway up, S — C across field.</p><p>Sestertius, Rome AD 65</p><p>32,32 mm / 22,85 gr</p><p>RIC — (cf. 171 in original edition); BMCRE 158; CBN 371 and pl. LI; Cohen 146; Mac Dowall (“The Western Coinages of Nero”, <i>ANS NNM 161</i>) 148; Cayón (<i>Los Sestercios del Imperio Romano</i>) 165; cf. Sear (<i>Roman Coins &amp; Their Values I</i>) 1958 — for a similar issue from the Lugdunum mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785357[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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