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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7803632, member: 86498&quot;]Probably the great fire of Rome in July of 64 AD was single most significant cause for the rather large issue of Aureii during the latter part of the reign of Nero the main reason why the precious metal mint was moved from Lugdunum to Rome and the impetus for the massive issue of Ae coins issue at the same time. This can be seen even with the recorded contents of the Boscoreale Hoard. Out of roughly 1000 coins recorded 622 were&nbsp; minted during the reign of Nero. Of these 444 are of the IVPPITER CVSTOS, SALVS and VESTA types.&nbsp; This compares to something like 73 for Vespasian.&nbsp; Many years ago I read that up to sometime during the&nbsp; the nineteenth century the aureii of Nero were considered to be nothing more than bullion. I have no way of verifying that this statement is true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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