brm_583756 - NERO Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 65
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine marron
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Luc Corso
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P P .
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Néron à droite avec un globe à la pointe du cou (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Nero Caesar Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Pater Patriae” (L’empereur Néron César Auguste Grand Pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunicienne, père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S|C// ROMA.
Reverse description : Rome nicéphore assise à gauche sur des armes, les jambes croisées, casquée et vêtue d’un chiton, tenant de la main gauche, une victoriolia et de la main droite, le parazonium.
Reverse translation : “Roma”, (Rome).
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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