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SARNUS GATE. View from north-east. ©SSBAPES.
The “treasure” of the fugitive
NAPLES, NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, COIN CABINET. Aureus of Nero, mint
of Rome, 64-65 d.C.
NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS Laureate head of Nero r.
AVGVSTVS AVGVSTA, Nero standing left, radiate and togate, holding patera and
scepter, and Poppaea standing left holding patera and cornucopiae
Inv. 161524 (57); g 7,35; mm 19. RIC I, 44.
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