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Contributor: Teresa Darling.

Issuer:

NERO, AD 54-68. AR Denarius.

Obverse:

NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, His large laureated head to the right.

Reverse:

SALVS, Salus seated to the left holding a patera.

Reference:

RIC 71; Sear 675 var. Grade: 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.