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| Classical Numismatic Group > Mail Bid Sale 73 | Auction date: 13 September 2006 |
| Lot number: 859 | |
| Lot description: Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Sestertius (32.24 g, 1h). Uncertain Thracian mint. Laureate head right / DECVRSIO, Nero on horseback riding right, holding spear; behind him, soldier on horseback right, holding vexillum. RIC I 172 var. (wearing aegis); WCN 89 var. (same); CNR XVIII 840 var. (no S C on reverse). Good VF, green patina, a spot of corrosion. The decursio was a military training exercise which acquired ceremonial pageantry. The decursio Troiae was an 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. Estimate: $2500 |  |
