As - Nero S C, Victory

Nero's bronze coinage of the 60s AD belongs to a deliberate monetary reform he pushed through in 64 AD, reducing both the weight of the aureus and the denarius — the first significant adjustment to Augustus's standard in nearly a century. The aes coinage followed, and these later bronzes are consistently lighter than those of Claudius. The reform was almost certainly driven by the costs of rebuilding Rome after the great fire of 64 AD, though Nero's detractors, Suetonius chief among them, folded every fiscal decision into a broader narrative of profligacy.

RIC 478 is one of several Victory types produced across this window, struck at Rome under Nero's restored senatorial bronze coinage — the SC formula re-established under Claudius and continued here without interruption.