Nero Sestertius. Lyons mint AD 65. 

Obv: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER PM TR P IMP P P, laureate 
head left with small globe at point of bust. 
Rev: Nero, bare-headed, cuirassed and with cloak floating 
free, prancing right on horseback, holding spear in right 
hand; beyond and behind him, soldier on horseback prancing 
right with vexillum held over shoulder. S-C across fields, 
DECVRSIO in exergue.

RIC 397; WCN 413; cf Sear 1957. Rare (R2).

With permission of Numismatica Ars Classica, May 2013.