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Æ19 - Nero ΑΥΛΟΣ ΓΕΣΣΙΟΣ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Smyrna (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 54-59 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Confronted busts of Nero and Agrippina II: the laureate, draped bust of Nero faces right in the foreground, while the draped bust of Agrippina II faces left behind him, the two effigies presented vis-à-vis within a beaded border. The Greek legend naming both imperial figures runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Nemesis standing right, winged and draped, holding a caduceus in her raised right hand; a serpent coils before her at lower left. The figure stands on a ground line within a beaded border, rendered in the provincial Greek artistic style. The magistrate's name and civic ethnic legend of Smyrna are inscribed around the periphery. |
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Aulos Gessius served as proconsul of Asia during the mid-50s AD, and coins struck in his name at Smyrna represent the city's formal acknowledgment of Roman administrative authority — a practice Smyrna pursued more consistently than most Ionian cities. The city had cultivated ties with Rome since at least 195 BC, when it erected one of the earliest temples to the goddess Roma, giving it unusual leverage in securing favorable treatment from successive governors.
RPC I 2470 is among the scarcer Neronian provincial issues from the Smyrnaean conventus district.