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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Arminius, post: 2229963, member: 18178&quot;]The first impressive ancient i can remember was this Nero / Victory As from Lyon:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.arminius-numismatics.com/coppermine1414/cpg1414/albums/userpics/10001/3405st.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">Nero, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, emission 4, struck 66 (67?) AD.,</font></p><p><font size="5">Æ As (26-27 mm / 9,51 g), copper, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 190°),</font></p><p><font size="5">Obv.: [IMP] NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR PO[T P P ] , his bare-headed head facing left, small globe at point of neck (RIC obverse type 66 F).</font></p><p><font size="5">Rev.: S - C , Victory flying left, wings open; before, shield inscribed S[PQR].</font></p><p><font size="5">RIC I 182, 546 (R) ; WCN 589 ; Coh. - ; BMC - ; CBN - . same obverse die as: <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=345960" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=345960" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=345960</a> (CGB.fr , Auction MONNAIES 16 (31.12.2002), Lot 425 )</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">This reverse type, Victory holding a small, round shield, records the awarding of the clupeus virtutis, the shield of valor, to Nero for victories in Armenia won by the able general Corbulo. Late in his reign (67 AD), Nero began to fear Corbulo and ordered him to commit suicide.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Originally coins with the clupeus virtutis were struck in celebration of the Senate&#039;s award of the &#039;clupeus virtutis&#039; of Augustus for the legions&#039; success in Persia and Armenia.</font></p><p><font size="5">Augustus was given an honorary shield called the clupeus virtutis, the shield of virtue, in 27 BC., a few years after Actium.</font></p><p><font size="5">On the clupeus virtutis was inscribed the following (original lost, text taken from one of several copies):</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS IMP CAESARI DIVI AUGUSTO COS VIII DEDIT CLUPEUM VIRTUTIS CLEMENTIAE IUSTITIAE PIETATIS ERGA DEOS PATRIAMQUE</font></p><p><font size="5">&quot;The senate and the Roman People dedicated to the emperor Augustus, son of the divine Caesar the shield for virtue, clemency, justice, and piety towards the gods and his native land&quot;.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">bought 1975 for ca. 35 DM </font></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe i already had some bad preserved and boring late Romans at that time but this coin with it´s impressive Greek style hooked me up for ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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