bpv_879542 - NERO Unité
180.00 €(Approx. 187.20$ | 149.40£)
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 54-68
Mint name / Town : Olba, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Joli portrait de Néron. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Néron à droite.
Obverse legend : AUTOKR NERWNA TON EUERG SEBAST KAIS.
Reverse
Reverse description : Caducée ailé entouré de deux serpents.
Reverse legend : M ANT POLEMWN BASILEUS.
Historical background
NERO
(13/10/54-9/06/68)
Augustus
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' 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 Claude by Agrippina with the help of Locuste in 54, aged 17, he began his reign under good auspices. Aided by Seneca, his tutor, and Burrus, prefect of the Praetorium, he governed intelligently with the Senate. He married Octavie, daughter of Claudius and Messalina. Octavie's brother, Britannicus, dies under mysterious conditions in AD 55 (poisoned?). After the "quinquennum aureum" (54-59), the emperor had or allowed his mother to be murdered. The last nine years of the reign will destabilize the principate.
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