brm_162104 - NERO Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 65
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 35,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 27,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large. Très beau portrait. Exemplaire à l’usure régulière. Les champs du droit et du revers ont été grattés. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron superficielle
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Néron à droite (O*) un globe à la pointe du cou .
Obverse translation : “Nero Claudius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate imperator Pater Patriæ”, (Néron Claude césar auguste germanique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne empereur père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S|C// ROMA.
Reverse description : Rome nicéphore assise à gauche sur des armes, les jambes croisées, casquée et vêtue d’un chiton, tenant de la main gauche, une victoriolia et de la main droite, le parazonium.
Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).
Commentary
Grand buste de style fin, hellénisant où tous les détails de la chevelure sont visibles. Sur cet exemplaire, le globe, à la pointe du cou n’est pas visible, cependant le style du portrait est lyonnais.
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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