Aureus Issued by Nero
Aureus Issued by Nero
- Description:
- Obverse: Facing Busts of Nero and Agrippina. Reverse: Inscription in an Oak Wreath.
- Medium:
- Gold
- Dimensions:
- Diam. 1.8 cm
- Context:
- Minted in Lyon
- Date:
- 54–57 CE
- Inventory Number:
- BNC II, Nero 4
- Lender:
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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The obverse legend, in Latin, reads:
AGRIPP AVG DIVI CLAVD NERONIS CAES MATER
Translation: Agrippina Augusta, (wife) of the deified Claudius, mother of Nero Caesar.
The reverse legend, in Latin, reads:
NERONI CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P
Translation: Nero, son of the deified Claudius, Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, (exercising the) Tribunician Power.
Inside the oak wreath on the reverse appears the Latin:
EX SC
Translation: In accordance with a decree of the Senate.
This coin type, an aureus issued by the Roman emperor Nero in the first year of his reign in collaboration with his mother, Agrippina the Younger, is cataloged in Online Coins of the Roman Empire as RIC I (second edition) Nero 1.