Nero, Copper-As, 10,11 g., mint of Lugdunum, issue II, 65 AD.
Obv.: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS , bare head right, a globe at the point of truncation.
Rev.: PONTIF MAX - [TR POT IM]P P P / S - C , Nero, as Apollo Citharoedus, advancing r. in flying robes, playing lyre.
RIC I, p. 176, # 417 ; WCN 547 .
Sueton (Nero 21,25) mentions this type: "Statuas suas Citharoedico habitu posuit, qua nota etiam nummum percussit."
showing Nero's self-identification with Apollo