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Description: | OBV: Head of Nero, laurate, bearded, r., with aegis.
Leg: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P (l. to r.)
REV: Overhead view of the harbour of Ostia; to l., crescent-shaped pier, with portico of fifteen pillars, figure sacrificing at altar, and building at end; to r., crescent-shaped row of nine breakwaters. Between pier and breakwaters, above, figure standing l. on column set on round base, holding sceptre in l. hand. Below, Neptune, naked except for cloak, reclining l., holding rudder and dolphin. In centre, eight ships.
Leg: AVG VSTI (in arc above), S POR OST C (in arc below)
ISSU Nero c64-66 AD Rome Italy RIC 91, BMC p. 223n | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | BUILDING : MONUMET : ALTAR : SACRIFICE : DEITY : NEPTUNE : ANIMAL : DOLPHIN : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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