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As - Nero S C, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 62-68 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC I#542, OCRE#ric.1(2).ner.542 |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P (Translation: Imperator Nero Caesar Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestas, Pater Patriae. Supreme commander (Imperator) Nero Caesar, emperor (Augustus), high priest, tribunician power, father of the country.) |
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| Mint | Rome Mint |
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| Additional information |
Nero's bronze coinage of this period reflects a deliberate administrative reform: in 64 AD he reduced the weight standard for the as, part of a broader debasement that also clipped the aureus and denarius. This piece, struck somewhere within the 62–68 window, sits either side of that reform, and the actual weight of a given example can help narrow which phase of production it represents.
The SC — senatus consulto — on the reverse was by this period a formality. The Senate had long since lost practical control over bronze coinage policy, but the fiction of senatorial authorization was maintained throughout the Julio-Claudian period.