bpv_272123 - NERO Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 55
Mint name / Town : Acmonée, Phrygie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Néron juvénile. Joli revers. Patine marron granuleuse.
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CNG, electronic auction 213, n° 303
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue à droite de Néron César, vu de trois quarts en avant (A°).
Obverse legend : AUTOKRATOR NERWN KLAUDIOS KAISAR SEBASTOS GERMANIKOS
Obverse translation : (L’empereur Néron Claude césar auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus (Jupiter) nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite tendue et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : EPI LEUKOU SEROUHNIOU KAPITWNONS AKMONEWN
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Lucius Servenius Capito d’Acmenea).
Commentary
Très beau juvénile de Néron César. Monnaie qui semble en bronze (laiton). Pour ce type les auteurs du Roman Porvincial Coinage ont recensé ving-et-un exemplaires pour dix-huit coins de droit avec un poids moyen de 4,82 g (11 ex.) et une orientation des coins à 12 heures.
Historical background
NERO
(13/10/54-9/06/68)
Caesar
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's 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 Claudius perpetrated by Agrippina with the help of Locuste in 54, he began his reign at the age of 17 under good auspices. Aided by Seneca, his tutor, and Burrus, prefect of the Praetorium, he governed intelligently with the Senate. He marries Octavie, daughter of Claudius and Messalina. Octavie's brother, Britannicus, dies under mysterious conditions in 55 BC (poisoned?). After the "quinquennum aureum" (54-59), the Emperor had or allowed his mother to be assassinated. The last nine years of the reign will destabilize the principate.
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