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979733. Sold For $695

Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Dupondii (30mm, 13.15 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck circa AD 66-67. IMP · NERO · CAESAR · AVG · P · M[AX · TR · P ·] P · P, laureate head right, globe at point of bust / VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory flying left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and palm frond over left shoulder; S C flanking. RIC I 522 or 601; Lyon 204; WCN 524 or 532; BMCRE 353-5; BN 141-8. VF, dark green patina.


From Collection DF. Ex Stack’s (8 December 1993), lot 2156.

MacDowell has demonstrated that the Victory type dupondii were struck during both series IV and V at the Lugdunum mint. In the absence of a detailed die study, the two issues are indistinguishable.