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As - Nero PONTIF MAX TR POTEST IMP P P S C I
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 62-68 |
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| Weight | 15.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Nero assimilated to Apollo Citharoedus, laureate and draped in a long chiton, advancing to the right while playing a large kithara (lyre) held before him with both hands. The prominent senatorial authorisation mark S C (Senatus Consultum) is placed in the field to either side of the central figure, flanking the deity-emperor at mid-height. The encircling legend occupies the outer field within a beaded border, with the officina numeral I appearing in the lower exergue. The composition reflects Nero's well-documented personal identification with Apollo and the musical arts, a propagandistic theme characteristic of his later coinage. |
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The SC (Senatus Consulto) on bronze issues like this one reflected a constitutional fiction — that the Senate retained authority over the base-metal coinage while the emperor controlled gold and silver. By Nero's reign this was largely ceremonial, but the formula was preserved. Nero's later bronze issues coincide with his 64 AD coinage reform, which reduced the weight standard for the as considerably, making earlier heavy examples physically distinct from post-reform survivors.