bpv_272161 - NERO Demi-unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 60
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Néron. Joli revers. Belle patine vert olive clair
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Tom Vossen
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de César à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : NERWN - KAISAR, (Nerwn Kaisar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste d’Héraclès laurée à droite, la léonté nouée sous le cou.
Reverse legend : EPI MINDIOU SARDIANWN.
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Mindios de Sardes).
Commentary
Les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont recensé quatorze exemplaires pour un poids moyen de 4,06 g (12 ex.) et un axe des coins à 6 ou à 12 heures avec au total quinze coins de droit pour quatre variétés (RPC. 3002.3005). Ces pièces sont au nom du stratège Mindios vers 60.
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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