RIC I (second edition) Nero 389

Typological Description

• Date Range: AD 62 - AD 68
• Object Type: Coin
• Manufacture: Struck
• Denomination: Sestertius
• Material: Bronze

• Authority

  • Authority: Nero

• Geographic

  • Mint: Lugdunum
  • Region: Gallia

• Obverse

  • Legend: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P
  • Type: Head of Nero, laureate, left; small globe at point of neck
  • Portrait: Nero

• Reverse

  • Legend: ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES S C
  • Type: Ceres, right, veiled and draped, seated left, holding corn-ears and torch, facing Annona, draped, standing right, right hand resting on hip, left holding cornucopiae; in center, modius on garlanded altar right; behind, ship's stern
  • Deity: Annona
  • Deity: Ceres