As - Nero S C, Victory

Nero's later bronze coinage was produced under the monetary reform of 64 AD, which reduced the weight standard of the as considerably — placing this piece either just before or within that transitional period. The reform was part of a broader fiscal adjustment, likely driven by the costs of rebuilding Rome after the great fire and the emperor's extravagant building program, including the Domus Aurea.

RIC I 605 is among the SC bronzes attributed to the Roman mint rather than Lugdunum, a distinction that occupied scholars for much of the twentieth century before Crawford and Sutherland refined the attribution criteria.