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Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 26.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 64. Laureate head left / Nero on horseback riding right, holding spear; behind him, soldier on horseback riding right, holding vexillum. RIC I 171; WCN 114. Appealing green patina, minor encrustation, area of smoothing on obverse. Good VF.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 84 (20 May 2015), lot 921 (obverse encrustation removed since).
The decursio was a military training exercise which acquired ceremonial pageantry. The decursio Troiae was an equestrian event and may have been connected to the earlier Republican transvectio equitum, a ceremony Augustus reinstituted. A similar decursio appears on the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius.
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