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Æ20 - Nero L RVTI PISONE IIV (R) (VIN) (COR) (in field) ADLO AVG
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 66-67 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | L RVTI PISONE IIVI(R) Q(VIN) (COR) (in field) ADLO AVG (Translation: with Lucius Rutilius Piso quinquennial duovir, of Corinth, the address of Augustus) |
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| Mintage | ND (66-67) |
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This issue belongs to a narrow window of Nero's tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, during which he famously competed in the Isthmian, Pythian, Nemean, and Olympic Games — and won every event he entered, by imperial fiat if not by merit. The magistrate name L. Rutilius Piso recorded in the field places this coin within the local colonial administration at Corinth, a city Rome had refounded as Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis in 44 BC after lying rubble for a century. Nero's adlocutio imagery on colonial bronzes from this period reflects a specific propaganda push tied to his Greek proclamation of freedom for the Achaean province in 67 AD.