Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
As of Nero, Rome

As of Nero, Rome

r. 54 - 68 CE

Nero

Roman Imperial

Obv.: Laureate head of Nero r.; around, [NERO C]LAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P. Rev.: Genius, his waist draped, standing half-left, sacrificing from patera over lighted altar with r. hand, l. hand holding cornucopiae; around, GENIO AVGVSTI; to l. and r., S-C; in exergue, I (mark of value with horizontal bar above denoting numeral).

Orichalcum

Roman Imperial period, Early

Coins