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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 eleven 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, seven ships.
Leg: S AVG VST C (in arc above), PORT OST (in arc below)
ISSU Nero c64-66 AD Rome Italy HCC 49, RIC 88a, BMC p. 222n. | 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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