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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8290774, member: 26430&quot;]Congratulations on the late arrival of your Nero! I&#039;ve had a few long waits like that from both Spain and Germany in the past year or two. (One was about 6 months!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I love this type of Nero. I&#039;m still looking for my example of the Imperial type.</p><p><br /></p><p>My example is the Provincial version from Thessaly. You just see it at the top of my reverse, but Apollo is depicted with a radiate crown to emphasize that it is supposed to be Nero in the guise of Apollo (since Nero had taken to associating himself with the sun god(s), and portrayed himself as radiate).</p><p><br /></p><p>It was struck on the occasion of his Greek musical tour of 66/67 CE, playing his lyre and performing at every games he could, and his &quot;liberation of Achaea.&quot; (This was a couple years after the great fire, but in 64, he really was &quot;fiddling while Rome burned&quot; -- just not in Rome!)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465459[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><b>Roman Provincial. Thessaly, Koinon of Thessaly. Nero (Augustus, 54-68 CE) Æ Diassarion</b> (22mm, 9.52 g, 6h). Struck under Aristion, strategos, ca. 66-8 CE<b>.</b></p><p><b>Obv</b>: ΝЄΡΩΝ ΘЄCCΑΛΩΝ. Laureate head right.</p><p><b>Rev</b>: APIΣTIΩN/OΣ ΣTPATH/ΓOY. Apollo Kitharoidos standing right, holding kithara in his left hand, playing it with his right.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ref</b>: Rogers Type 79; BCD Thessaly II 931.1 var. (arrangement of legend); Burrer Em. 1, Series 1, 1.1 (A1/R1 – <i>this coin, illustrated</i> on pl. 9); RPC 1439 (<i>this coin cited</i>, RPC Supplement 1 and Online, as Burrer 1.1).</p><p><b>See also</b>: Huber (2014) p. 84, Group 1, C; Touratsoglou p. 159, No. 62 (possibly this coin?).</p><p><b>Prov</b>: Ex-BCD Collection; CNG EA 325, “<i>Coinage of the Thessalian League from the BCD Collection</i>,” (23 April 2014), Lot 29; Peter J. Merani Collection (<i>NVMMIS HISTORIAM DISCENS, </i>Part II); CNG e-Auction 490 (21 April 2021), Lot 65.</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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