Lot 2235
Nero. Æ Sestertius (28.21 g), AD 54-68. Rome, ca. AD 62-68. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head of Nero left. Reverse: [A]DLOCVT COH, no S C, emperor, togate and bare-headed, standing left on low platform on right, raising arm in salute; behind him on platform, praetorian prefect, togate and bare-headed, standing left; before the platform, three soldiers standing in single file right, the two foremost carry standards; in background, building with two pillars and sloping roof, and behind it, the wall of the praetorian camp, in crescent shape, with battlements. Cf. RIC 133 (with S C); WCN -; cf. BMC 126 (obv. legend). Extremely Rare variety lacking the S C. Dark green and brown patina. An impressive and well detailed reverse. Choice Very Fine. Estimate Value $4,000 - UP
From the Dr. Patrick Tan Collection. Ex Obolos 4 (21 February 2016), 558; Prince Waldeck Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 1, 28 June 1934), 183.
This coin comes from the collection of Prince Friedrich I of Waldeck, the last reigning prince of the German state of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Established as a county of the Holy Roman Empire from about 1200, by 1870 it had become a constituent element of the German Empire of the Hohenzollern Kaisers. The disaster of World War I resulted in widespread uprisings in Germany that forced Kaiser Wilhelm II and the lesser hereditary nobility to abdicate in 1918, and like his peers, Friedrich I gave up his power and his principality was absorbed into the fragile new Weimar Republic. The collection, which focused on Roman and Byzantine coins, was mostly sold off in the early 1930s.
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