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                                Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1537. Closing Date: Jun 08, 
                                2005. NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.06 gm, 
                                6h). Rome mint. Struck 64 AD. Bidding Closed 
                                Estimate $750 

                              NERO. 54-68 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.06 gm, 6h). Rome 
                              mint. Struck 64 AD. Laureate bust right, wearing 
                              aegis / Nero on horseback left, holding spear; 
                              behind him, soldier on horseback holding vexillum. 
                              RIC I 165; BMCRE 148; Cohen 91. VF, dark green and 
                              brown patina, minor roughness. ($750)

                              From the Rudolf Berk Collection. Ex Stack's (14-15 
                              June 1971), lot 415.

                              The decursio was a military training exercise 
                              which acquired ceremonial pageantry. The decursio 
                              Troiae was a specifically equestrian event and may 
                              have been connected to the earlier Republican 
                              transvectio equitum, a ceremony Augustus 
                              reinstituted. A similar decursio appears on the 
                              base of the Column of Antoninus Pius.








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High bid of $600, $690 including 15% buyers fee, or approximately €486, £330, C$750, A$780, on June 8, 2005.

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