MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 60
Mint name / Town : Tralles, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,37 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan très épais. Très beau portrait juvénile de Néron. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Très belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nue de Néron à droite (O°) ; derrière un lituus.
Obverse legend : NERwN
Obverse translation : (Néron).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes ouvertes.
Reverse legend : KAIS-AREwN
Commentary
Poids lourd. Pour ce type, les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont recensé cinq exemplaires seulement avec cinq coins de droit et un poids moyen de 2,88 g et un axe des coins à 12 heures.
Heavyweight. For this type, the authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage recorded only five examples with five obverse dies and an average weight of 2.88 g and a die axis at 12 o'clock.
Heavyweight. For this type, the authors of the Roman Provincial Coinage recorded only five examples with five obverse dies and an average weight of 2.88 g and a die axis at 12 o'clock.
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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