v16_0405 - NERO Aureus
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 5 000.00 €
Realised price : 2 500.00 €
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 5 000.00 €
Realised price : 2 500.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 61-62
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lugdunum, (Lyon)
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 7,63 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Le champ a été légèrement gratté au droit. Très joli revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NERO. CAESAR. AVG. IMP..
Obverse description : Tête nue de Néron à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Nero Cæsar Augustus Imperator”, (Néron césar auguste empereur).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONTIF MAX - TR P VIII COS IIII PP ; DANS LE CHAMP EX - SC.
Reverse description : Mars (Rome) debout à droite casqué et vêtu militairement, le pied gauche posé sur un casque, tenant des deux mains un bouclier rond (votif) ; dans le champ à droite une épée et un bouclier posés au sol.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate octavus Consul quartus, Pater Patriæ/ Ex Senatus Consulto”, (Grand pontife, revêtu de la huitième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la quatrième fois père de la patrie/ Avec l’accord du Sénat).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (n° 38 = Giard, Lyon n° 27/1a, pl. 19, A/146).
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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