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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 67-68
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,49 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légèrement décentré au droit sur la légende. Beau buste de Néron. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Néron à droite avec l'égide sur le cou (O*4).
Obverse legend : NERWN [KAISAR - SE-BASTOS], (Nerwn Kaisar Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (Néron césar auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur une deux branches de laurier opposées, les ailes déployées ; dans le champ à gauche, une palme verticale.
Reverse legend : ETOUS/ sIR.
Reverse translation : (an 116 de l’ère césarienne).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur,cinquante deux exemplaires seulement sont maintenant répertoriés.
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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