bpv_243965 - NERO Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 54 ou 55
Mint name / Town : Julia, Phrygie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 4,24 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré, mais court sur la légende de revers. Très beau portrait de Néron César. Joli revers inhabituel. Patine marron
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Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Rutten & Wieland
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue à droite de Néron César, vu de trois quarts en avant (A°01).
Obverse legend : NERWN - KAISAR, (Nerwn Kaisar)
Obverse translation : (Néron césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Le dieu Mên, à cheval au pas à droite, drapé, tenant un sceptre.
Reverse legend : [SERGIOS HFA]ISTIWN I-wULIAEWN, (Sergios Hfaistiwn Iouliewn)
Reverse translation : (Sergios Héphaistion de Julia).
Commentary
Très beau juvénile de Néron César.
Historical background
NERO
(13/10/54-9/06/68)
Caesar
Nero is certainly one of the best-known emperors, thanks to Tacitus and Suetonius, but also one of the most decried. He is the last representative of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Son of Agrippina, Claudius's second wife, and Cneius Domitius Ahenobarbus, he was born in 37. He descends from both Augustus through his mother and Julie through his maternal grandfather, Germanicus. After the assassination of Claudius perpetrated by Agrippina with the help of Locuste in 54, he began his reign at the age of 17 under good auspices. Aided by Seneca, his tutor, and Burrus, prefect of the Praetorium, he governed intelligently with the Senate. He marries Octavie, daughter of Claudius and Messalina. Octavie's brother, Britannicus, dies under mysterious conditions in 55 BC (poisoned?). After the "quinquennum aureum" (54-59), the Emperor had or allowed his mother to be assassinated. The last nine years of the reign will destabilize the principate.
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