Æ24 - Nero C C I B EX CONSENSV D

Butrint — ancient Buthrotum — occupied a strategically awkward peninsula in northwestern Greece, and its elevation to Roman colonial status under Julius Caesar was partly a land-settlement scheme for veterans, partly a political maneuver that Cicero actively opposed and wrote about at length. The phrase EX CONSENSV on this issue reflects the local senate's formal ratification of the issue, a procedural declaration more common in eastern colonial bronzes than in western ones.

Nero's reign saw renewed administrative attention to Achaea, culminating in his theatrical declaration of Greek freedom at the Isthmian Games in 67 AD.