Ancient and World Coins

Roman Imperial Coinage, Nerva, Sestertius, Rome, 97, laureate bust right, rev. palm-tree, 25.36g (RIC 82). Good fine or better, rare
£400-500

Provenance: Glendining Auction, 15 February 1989, lot 134 (part).

Records Nerva’s ending of abuses of the collection of the tax supposedly only levied on Jews