bpv_311222 - NERO Unité
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Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 55
Mint name / Town : Thessalonique, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage, bien centré au droit, un peu court au revers sur la légende. Très belle tête de Néron. Revers de haut relief. Très belle patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente d’Argenor (Yves Cellard) en 2002
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nue de Néron à gauche (O°).
Obverse legend : NERWN - KAISAR.
Obverse translation : (Néron césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Bouclier macédonien.
Reverse legend : MAKEDONWN SEBATOS.
Reverse translation : (de Macédoine auguste).
Commentary
Pour ce type, les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coins ont recensé 26 exemplaires pour dix-sept coins de droit avec un poids moyen de 8,23 g pour six exemplaires et un axe des coins à 6 heures.
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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