Æ16 - Nero ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Poppaea Sabina received the title Augusta in 62 AD, the same year Nero divorced and exiled Octavia — who was dead within weeks. Magnesia ad Sipylum, a city in the Smyrna conventus with a long habit of flattering the imperial household, struck this bronze acknowledging the new Augusta almost certainly within months of the title's conferral. Provincial cities competed for imperial favour through exactly this kind of rapid honorific issue, and Magnesia was quicker than most.

Poppaea died in 65 AD, leaving this type a window of just three years.