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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Nero| > RB85335
Nero, 13 October 54 - 9 June 68 A.D.
|Nero|, |Nero,| |13| |October| |54| |-| |9| |June| |68| |A.D.|, Then reverse legend abbreviates, Certamen quinquennale Romae constitutum - five-year games established at Rome. In 60 A.D. Nero founded the quinquennial Neronia games at Rome which, in the Greek fashion, included musical, gymnastic, and horse racing contests. Nero himself was awarded the victory crowns for Latin oratory and poetry and for lyre playing. Despite his supposed talent, it seems Nero did not actually perform at all, the judges declared he was the only one worthy of victory.
RB85335. Orichalcum semis, RIC I 233, BMCRE I 261, Mac Dowall WCN 325, BnF I 338, Cohen I 47, SRCV I 1979, VF, nice portrait, toned brass, light encrustations and deposits, light corrosion, Rome mint, weight 3.174g, maximum diameter 19.3mm, die axis 180o, 66 - 68 A.D.; obverse NERO CAES AVG IMP, laureate head right; reverse CER QVINQ ROM CO (Certamen quinquennale Romae constitutum - five-year games established at Rome), prize-urn and a wreath set on a agonistic prize-table seen from front and right, front panel ornamented with two griffins, discus(?) resting against right front leg, S (semis) above left, S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; SOLD










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Klose, D. & G. Stumpf. Sport, Spiel, Sieg. (Munich, 1996).


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