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Nero. AD 54-68. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.32 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 66-67. IMP NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / IVPPITER CVSTOS, Jupiter, bare to waist, cloak around lower limbs, seated left on throne, holding thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left. RIC I 63; WCN 30; Calicó 413; BMCRE 77-9; BN 231-2; Adda 32; Biaggi 227-8; Mazzini 120 and 120*; CNR XVI 73/1 (this coin). Attractive violet-red toning, characteristic of aurei from Boscoreale. Good VF.
From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 114 (6 May 2019), lot 621; Coppens Collection (Bourgey, 6 December 1961), lot 27. Possibly from the Boscoreale Hoard of 1895.
On April 13, 1895, excavators working on a Roman villa near Pompeii unearthed a vaulted box containing more than 1,000 gold aurei. The coins were dispersed to local collectors before any records could be compiled, so today it is impossible to tell for certain whether any particular coin was from the Boscoreale Hoard. However, the presence of deep reddish toning on an aureus dating to before the eruption is regarded as highly suggestive that the coin was from this hoard.
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