TURS 27

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Token

  • Date Range

    • From Date: 54 AD
    • To Date: 68 AD
  • Manufacture: Cast
  • Material: Lead
  • Shape: circle

  • Obverse

    • Type: Bare head of Nero right.
    • Legend: NE A
    • Portrait: Nero

  • Reverse

    • Type: Apollo (or Nero), nude, standing right with lyre in both hands.
    • Legend: AV G
    • Deity: Apollo

  • Geographic

References

Notes

  • Note: Rostovtzeff recorded the legend on side A as NE R, but examining the only known specimen in the British Museum, a reading of NE A seems more likely: Ne(ro) A(ugustus).