Nero (AD 54-68). Orichalcum sestertius 25.41 gm). Lyons, AD 66-68. 

IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX TR POT P P, laureate head left, globe at tip of neck. 
CONG I DAT POP S C, Nero seated right on curule chair on platform, presiding at his first distribution of money to the 
Roman people; an official seated before the emperor at a table checks off the name of a citizen and his son mounting a ladder to the platform; a second official holds up the rectangular tablet; in the background, a statue of Minerva holding owl and spear. 

RIC 503. WCN 446. 
Rare: not in Cohen or BMC with this obverse legend and portrait left. 

With permission of Gemini I Session 2, lot: 321 Jan 2005.