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Attractive Nero Sestertius

838010. Sold For $4750

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (37mm, 28.72 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 65. Laureate head left / Annona standing right, holding cornucopia, with head lowered toward Ceres seated left on throne, holding torch and grain ears; between, modius on garlanded altar; behind, ship’s stern. RIC I 391; WCN 412; Lyon 114. Good VF, attractive dark green patina.


In order to endear himself, Nero granted many largesses to the common people in the form of congiaria---typically personified by Annona, a provision for one year usually in the form of grain, and by Ceres, the goddess of agriculture and a representation of the grain itself.