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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: NERO, AD 54-68. AR Denarius.
Obverse: NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: (IVP)PITER CVSTOS, Jupiter seated left holding sceptre (Jupiter gardian/protector of Nero).
Reference: RIC 53; Sear 673, Van Meter 8. Grade VF/F+.
Comments: For more information, read the "Nero" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Nero see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.