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As - Nero PONTIF MAX TR P IMP P P S C I
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 62-68 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Nero assimilated to Apollo Citharoedus, laureate, depicted advancing to the right in robes, holding a kithara (lyre) in his left hand and apparently plucking its strings with his right. The senatorial authorisation monogram S C (Senatus Consulto) is prominently placed in the field to either side of the central figure. The reverse legend encircles the design within a raised border, advertising Nero's principal Imperial titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | PONTIF MAX TR P IMP P P S C I (Translation: High priest, tribunician power, supreme commander, father of the country. Decree of the senate.) |
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Nero's aes coinage was fundamentally restructured around 64 AD when he reduced the weight standards of the sestertius and as, almost certainly to fund reconstruction after the Great Fire of Rome — and possibly to finance the Domus Aurea. The SC (Senatus Consulto) inscription had by this point become a formality; the Senate's authority over bronze coinage was nominal at best under Nero's rule. These pieces circulated heavily throughout the empire well into the second century, long after Damnatio Memoriae had made his name officially erased from public monuments.