bpv_727770 - NERO Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 50-54
Mint name / Town : Sidé, Pamphylie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Joli portrait ainsi qu’un revers agréable. Fine usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Néron César à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A°01).
Obverse legend : NERwN - KAISAR, (Nerown Kaisar).
Obverse translation : (Néron césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna casquée, vêtue militairement marchant à gauche, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite, e tun bouclier sur l’épaule gauche ; au-dessus une grenade ; à ses pieds, un sepent.
Reverse legend : SID-HT, (Sidhtwn).
Reverse translation : (de Sidé).
Commentary
Beau portrait juvénile de Néron césar avec le buste lauré. Pour ce type, les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage, RPC. I ont recensé seize exemplaire avec un poids moyen de 5,22 g.
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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