bpv_272130 - NERO Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: An 377
Mint name / Town : Damas, Syrie, Coelé-Syrie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et ovale, légèrement décentré des deux côtés, en particulier au revers sur une partie de la légende. Belle tête de Néron à l’usure régulière. Joli revers servi par une belle patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Tom Vossen
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Néron à droite (O*), devant un lituus.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tyché de Damas assise à gauche sur des rochers, le bras droit tendu, tenant une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : DAMA-SKH-[NwN ZOT], (Damaskhnwn).
Reverse translation : (de Damas An 377).
Commentary
Pour ce type les auteurs du RPC ont répertorié quinze exemplaires pour treize coins de droit.
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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