Lot description:
The Anthony Milavic Collection of Ancient Games Coins
The Crown Games
The Isthmian Games
CORINTHIA. Corinth. Nero, 54-68. As (Bronze, 21 mm, 8.50 g, 12 h), struck under the duovir Tiberius Claudius Optatus, 57/8 or 58/9. NERO CLAVD CAES AVG Bare head of Nero to right. Rev. TI CLAVDIO OPTATO IIVIR / ISTHMIA Parsley wreath. BCD Corinth 462 (this coin). RPC I 1202. SNG Lewis 1267. Dark black and green patina. Minor roughness, otherwise, very fine.
From the collection of Major Anthony F. Milavic, USMC (Ret.) and from the BCD Collection, Lanz 105, 26 November, 462.
The wreath on the reverse refers to the Isthmian Games.
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