Some help with what this is?

PrivateCoinCollector

Can someone give me some help on what this is and when it is from? Also what the listed value would be? This was in a small envelope in a collection I bought with nothing written on it. I also have no idea what if anything would be considered the reverse? Any education you can give me would be great!





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TitusFlavius

Your coin appears to be a billon tetradrachm minted in Alexandria, Egypt during Roman times. Specifically it is from the twelfth regnal year of Emperor Nero (65-66 AD). The second picture is the obverse featuring the radiate portrait of Nero with his name and titles in Greek. The reverse depicts a personification of the city of Alexandria as a woman wearing an elephant-skin headdress. The LIB to the right of the portrait is the date.

Egypt was a closed economy, administered as a personal estate of the Emperor. Because of this, a unique local coinage was issued, different from the rest of the Empire. A tetradrachm like this was considered the equivalent of the smaller, but purer Roman Denarius.

Volume I of Sear's millennium edition of "Roman Coins and Their Values" lists your coin at $40 in F and $104 in VF. I don't know the series well enough to grade or to provide more current pricing, but it's a place to start.