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| Uitgever | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Jaar | 56-57 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Emperor Nero facing right, with draped shoulders, rendered in the provincial Alexandrian style. The portrait displays the characteristic youthful features of Nero's early reign, with a short neck and slightly idealized facial treatment. The encircling Greek legend reads ΝΕΡ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΑΥΤΟ, abbreviating his full imperial titulature, distributed around the field. The flan is irregular in shape, as is typical of hammered Alexandrian tetradrachms of the Julio-Claudian period. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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The regnal year L Γ (Year 3) places this tetradrachm in the earliest phase of Nero's reign, struck when Burrus and Seneca still held genuine influence over imperial policy. Alexandria's mint operated under direct prefectural authority rather than senatorial oversight, making Egyptian coinage a reliable instrument of imperial image-making in the province. The title ΠΡΟΝ ΝΕΟΥ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ — "of the New Augustus" — reflects the careful rhetorical positioning of Nero's early years, before the principate turned coercive.
Milne's sequence places this issue among the first systematically catalogued Neronian tetradrachms from the Alexandrian series, and the billon content was still relatively high at this point in the reign — a deterioration that would accelerate markedly by his final years.