64 AD., Nero, Thracian or Balkans mint (Perinthos ?), Dupondius, RPC 1759 var.

Nero, Thracian or Balkans mint (Perinthos ?), ca. 64 AD.,
Æ Dupondius (ø 26-27 mm / 12,64 g), probably brass ("orichalcum"), axes medal alignment ↑↑ (ca. 0°),
Obv.: NERO CLAVDIVS [C]AESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P , his radiate head facing right; dimple at the lower part of Nero´s ear cup? (otherwise RIC obverse type 49E)
Rev.: SECVRITAS - [AVGVSTI] / S - [C] / II , Securitas, bare to waist, seated right, on throne, resting head against right hand and holding short sceptre in left; in front, lighted and garlanded altar, on which leans lighted torch resting on a bucranium; flanking in fields, S - C; in exergue Roman value number II (2 As); two shallow dimples on the hip and thigh of Securitas.
RPC I, p. 320, no. 1759 var. (laureate head) (one piece listed: NC 1960, 107, no. 2) ; cf. RIC I, p. 163, no. 195 (scarce) ; - WCN 190 ; - CBN II, 153, 307 ; - Coh. 326 .
Same obverse die as http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=626110 ( Münzen & Medaillen GmbH (DE), Auction 30, Lot 1257 , 28. May 2009 ) ; - http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=848272 ( Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 269, Lot 2713, 23. September 2010) ; - http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=390837

RIC I states on page 156 for Rome and Lugdunum Aes: "Dies ↑↓ , with ↑↑ occasionally for quadrantes."

thanks to Curtis Clay for the identification of the mint. He stated on http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=105309.0 - 14/01/2016: "Thracian mint, probably Perinthus, bust var. of RPC 1749. Note shallow rotation dimples on both sides. These Thracian coins were sometimes struck with upright die axis."