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bpv_1003838 - NERO Drachme syro-phénicienne

NERO Drachme syro-phénicienne XF
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Type : Drachme syro-phénicienne
Date: 56-57
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Usure régulière et quelques faiblesses. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Tête nue de Néron jeune à droite (O°).
Obverse legend : NERWNOS KAISAROS SEBA
Obverse translation : (Néron césar auguste).

Reverse


Reverse description : Bassin supporté par un trépied autour duquel est enroulé un serpent.
Reverse legend : DRACMH - ER G
Reverse translation : (Drachme - troisième année de règne - An 105 de l’ère césarienne).

Commentary


Cette émission est bien entendu de toute première importance historique et monétaire. Elle fait partie, avec d’autres divisionnaires et des tétradrachmes aux bustes de Claude et d’Agrippine, à l’émission de donativa pour l’élévation de Néron au pouvoir suprême.
Par ailleurs, il s’agit de l’une des très rares émissions qui porte effectivement une valeur monétaire. On ignore, dans l’état actuel de la recherche, les motivations de cette émission : s’agissait-il de l’introduction dans le système monétaire de divisionnaires, dont le manque se faisait probablement sentir, ou d’une tentative de modification de ce système, laquelle aurait échoué, puisque l’on ne verra plus de divisionnaires ultérieurement ?
Le trépied et le serpent sont très probablement une référence au culte d’Apollon, l’un des plus importants à Antioche, célébré dans le faubourg de Daphné.
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, vingt-six exemplaires sont répertoriés dont quinze en musées ou collections publiques : Paris, trois exemplaires, ANS, Oxford, Berlin, quatre exemplaires, Yale, British Museum, deux exemplaires, Copenhague et deux exemplaires à Cambridge.
This issue is of course of the utmost historical and monetary importance.. It is part, along with other divisionaries and tetradrachms with busts of Claudius and Agrippina, of the donativa issue for the elevation of Nero to supreme power..
Furthermore, it is one of the very few issues that actually carries a monetary value.. At the current stage of research, the motives for this issue are unknown: was it the introduction of fractional coins into the monetary system, the shortage of which was probably felt, or an attempt to modify this system, which would have failed, since we will no longer see fractional coins later? The tripod and the serpent are most likely a reference to the cult of Apollo, one of the most important in Antioch, celebrated in the suburb of Daphne..
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, twenty-six examples are listed, fifteen of which are in museums or public collections: Paris, three examples, ANS, Oxford, Berlin, four examples, Yale, British Museum, two examples, Copenhagen and two examples in Cambridge.

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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