Nero's coinage of 63–64 AD falls in the period just before the Great Fire of Rome, when his principate still retained a veneer of Augustan traditionalism. The addition of EX S C — "by decree of the Senate" — on a silver imperial issue is genuinely unusual; it appears on select Neronian denarii as a calculated gesture toward senatorial legitimacy, possibly connected to the political maneuvering following the death of Burrus and the fall of Seneca's influence at court.
RIC I#41 is among the more discussed types in the series precisely because that EX S C formula had largely disappeared from precious metal coinage after Augustus.
Nero's coinage of 63–64 AD falls in the period just before the Great Fire of Rome, when his principate still retained a veneer of Augustan traditionalism. The addition of EX S C — "by decree of the Senate" — on a silver imperial issue is genuinely unusual; it appears on select Neronian denarii as a calculated gesture toward senatorial legitimacy, possibly connected to the political maneuvering following the death of Burrus and the fall of Seneca's influence at court.
RIC I#41 is among the more discussed types in the series precisely because that EX S C formula had largely disappeared from precious metal coinage after Augustus.