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| Emittent | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Jahr | 58-59 |
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| Gewicht | 13.07 g |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Laureate and draped bust of the Emperor Nero facing right, rendered in the Alexandrian provincial style. The portrait shows youthful features with a wreath of laurel leaves crowning the head, characteristic of early Neronian coinage. The Greek legend encircles the effigy in the field, reading ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΓΕΡ ΑΥΤΟ, abbreviating his full imperial titulature as Nero Claudius Caesar Sebastos Germanicus Autokrator. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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Nero's Egyptian coinage was administered through the Roman prefect's office in Alexandria, which operated a closed monetary system — Roman coins did not circulate freely in Egypt, and Alexandrian issues were not legal tender elsewhere. The billon tetradrachm was the workhorse of that system. By the time of this L Ε (year 5) issue, the fineness of the alloy had already begun a slow decline that would accelerate dramatically under later emperors, though Neronian pieces still retain relatively respectable silver content compared to what followed.
The regnal year 5 corresponds to the Egyptian fiscal year running 58–59 AD, shortly after Nero had his mother Agrippina the Younger murdered at Baiae.