Rare and beautiful sestercia of Nero, who with this type of reverse anointed himself in a way the new Alexander the Great, of course, it remained only in the sphere of ambition.
On Coinarchives, we found only 11 quotations for this variety, the last of which was from 2018 with a sale amount of 480 EUR. The record for sales was set in 2012, and the auctioned amount reached 3,000 EUR.
Roman Imperial
Nero (54-68), Sestertius 65 AD, Rome mint
Obverse: laureate bust of Nero right, aegis on left shoulder
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P
Reverse: Nero on horseback prancing right, holding spear in right hand, behind him soldier right with vexillum held over shoulder, S-C across fields, DECVRSIO in exergue
Weight 26,02 g
Nero is certainly one of the most famous emperors, thanks to Tacitus and Suetonius, but also one of the most despised. He is the last representative of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. After the murder of Claudius by Agrippina with locusts in 54 AD, at the age of 17, he began his reign under good auspices. With the help of Seneca, his teacher, and Burrus, the Praetorian prefect, he intelligently ruled the Senate. Ultimately, however, he turned out to be a tyrant, and the last nine years of reign destabilized the Empire.
