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Sestertius - Nero CONG I DAT POP S C; Minerva and Liberalitas

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Issuer RomeRoman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Emperor Nero (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (54-68)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 62-68
Value 1 Sestertius = ¼ Denarius
Currency Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
Composition Bronze
Weight 25.42 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
246715
References RIC I# 503
Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham, Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland, Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson; 1984. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 1. Augustus – Vitellius (31 BC–AD 69) (1923 revised Edition). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
, OCRE# ric.1(2).ner.503
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)

Obverse

Head of Nero, laureate, left; small globe at point of neck.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX TR POT P P

Translation:
Imperator Nero Caesar Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestas, Pater Patriae.
Supreme commander (Imperator) Nero Caesar, emperor (Augustus), high priest, tribunician power, father of the country.

Reverse

Nero, bare-headed and togate, seated right, on platform, left; official seated right on another platform extending congiarium to citizen with small boy behind him; Minerva, head left, holding owl and spear, and Liberalitas on right, holding tessera.

Script: Latin

Lettering: CONG I DAT POP S C

Translation:
Congiarium Primum Datum Populo, Senatus Consultum.
The first congiarium (distribution of money to the civilians) given to the people. Decree of the senate.

Mint

Lugdunum, Gaul, modern-day Lyons, France (15 BC–AD 78; 196–197; 274-413)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (62-68) 

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