Æ23 - Nero IVPPITER LIBERATOR, C P

Patras held unusual standing in the Greek east as a Roman colony planted by Augustus himself, settled with veterans after Actium — making it one of the few Achaean cities where Latin titulature and Roman colonial cult were genuinely embedded rather than performed. The epithet LIBERATOR applied to Jupiter here likely echoes Nero's theatrical 67 AD proclamation of Greek freedom at the Isthmian Games, a gesture that exempted the province of Achaea from taxation, however briefly Vespasian reversed it.