Nero AE22-24 of Dioshieron, Lydia. 54-68 AD, 6.20g, 

Obv: NERWN KAISAR, ZEYC (Z retrograde) above, laureate head of youthful 
Nero right, facing laureate, bearded bust of Zeus left. 

Rev: DIOCIERITWN KOPBOYLWN and monogram around, HPA in field, Hera 
standing left holding sceptre. 

Perhaps the only Roman coin to show the emperor's portrait vis-à-vis that 
of a named god, in this case Zeus. 
If the monogram can be resolved GR, the magistrate Corbulo named on the 
reverse may have been Grammateus (RPC, p. 429) Rare double portrait of Nero and the god Zeus. 
EF 

RPC 2559 (same dies); BMC 7. 

Price US$ 2,000.00 

Harlan J Berk Buy of Bid Sale 165, July 2009, Lot 542

Courtesy of Harlan J Berk Co., August 2010.