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Description: | OBV: Head of Nero, laurate, bearded, l.
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 twenty pillars, and building at end; to r., crescent-shaped row of fifteen 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, eleven ships.
Leg: S AVG VST C (in arc above), PORT OST (in arc below)
ISSU Nero c64-66 AD Rome Italy 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 : 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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