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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3102452, member: 56859&quot;]RIP, Nero.&nbsp; I believe much of his negative &quot;publicity&quot; was a bad rap.</p><p><br /></p><p>Favorite provincial:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerodiobol-dattari-vase-e153-jpg.726813/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Nero</b></p><p>Regnal year 14 (CE 67/8)</p><p>AE diobol; 27 mm, 10.9 gm</p><p>Obv: NEPΩKΛAVK[AIΣΣEBΓEPA]; laureate head right</p><p>Rev: L - IΔ; &quot;vase&quot; (Emmett), or &quot;oinochoe&quot; per others (others are probably correct)</p><p>Ref: Dattari-Savio Pl. 1, 2 (<i>this coin</i>); Dattari cf 286; RPC 5322; Emmett 153.14; Poole (BM, 1892) cf 188?; Milne -; none in a few other minor references I own. Rare.</p><p><i>ex Dattari collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1858-1923)</i></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Favorite imperial:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/neroannonaceressestertius-rt-jpg.778380/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Nero</b></p><p>struck in Rome, CE 63</p><p>Orichalcum sestertius, 34 mm, 26.7 gm</p><p>Obv: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP PP; laureate head right, wearing aegis</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES; Ceres, veiled and draped, seated left, holding corn ears and torch, her feet on stool, facing Annona standing right, holding cornucopia; between them, modius on garlanded altar; in background, stern of ship</p><p>Ref: RIC 98. Cohen 24[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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