v36_0377 - NERO Denier
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. 66-67
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,13 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait. Une patine grise superficielle recouvre la pièce
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP NERO CAESAR - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Néron à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Nero Cæsar Augustus”, (L’empereur Néron césar auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVPPITER - CVSTOS.
Reverse description : Jupiter trônant à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iuppiter Custos”, (Jupiter protecteur).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Ce type de revers, normalement courant, est très rare pour cette émission, beaucoup plus que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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