v08_0172 - NERO Quadrans (PB, Æ 14)
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
Realised price : 68.60 €
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
Realised price : 68.60 €
Type : Quadrans (PB, Æ 14)
Date: 64
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,97 g.
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire de haut relief avec une patine vert jade foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NERO CLAV - CAE AVG GE/R.
Obverse description : Casque corinthien posé à droite sur une colonne sur laquelle repose un bouclier orné d'un gorgoneion ; derrière, une lance placée verticalement.
Obverse translation : "Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus" (Néron Claude césar auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - IMP P P/ S|C .
Reverse description : dans le champ, une branche d'olivier ; marque de valeur (trois globules) à l'exergue.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate, Pater Patriae" (Grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, père de la patrie),.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Exemplaire de petit diamètre.
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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