Lot 4526

Description

Nero, (A.D. 54-68), AE sestertius, issued c.64, Rome mint, (30.31 g), obv. laureate head to right of Nero, around NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG G ER P M TR P IMP PP, rev. Arch with quadriga above, Mars standing in left niche, S C across field, (S.1962, RIC 143, BMC 183). Good fine, attractive light brown patina with surface roughness.

Ex Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 79 (lot 3596).
The Arch has been identified as that decreed by the Senate in A.D. 58 (Tacitus Annals xiii, 41) to commemorate the eastern victories of Cn. Domitius Corbulo. It was located on the Capitoline Hill but its exact site is uncertain, the structure probably having been demolished following Nero's downfall a few years later.