RIC 581- Nero sestertius- Joe Geranio photo Collection.

RIC 1 581, WCN (western coinage of Nero) Lugdunum mint, struck 67 AD- shows Princeps Nero laureate head right, with small globe at point of neck/ obverse legend reads:  IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR POT PP/ translation:  supreme commander (Imperator), Nero Caesar princeps, (Augustus), high priest, tribunican power, father of the country. Reverse:  DECVRSIO  = military maneuver by decree or approved by the senate.  The DECVRSIO was a military training exercise which required military ceremonial pageantry. The decursio troiae was an equestrian event and may have been connected with earlier republican trans vectio equitum , a ceremony Augustus re- instituted, a similar decursio appears on the base of the column of Antoninus Pius.  Joe Geranio text and photo Collection.