bpv_639492 - NERO Didrachme
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Type : Didrachme
Date: 52
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,96 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan centré à l’usure très importante au droit. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection ancienne
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Néron enfant à droite (A°01).
Obverse legend : NERwNOS KAISAROS GERMANIKOU.
Obverse translation : (Néron césar germanique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Lituus et simpulum dans le champ.
Reverse legend : DIDRACMON.
Reverse translation : (Didrachme).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, quarante exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés, dont un faux d’époque,à première vue six faux modernes et neuf exemplaires en musées ou collections publiques (Berlin, trois exemplaires, Yale, British Museum, Copenhague, Vienne, deux exemplaires, et Cambridge.
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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