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Dupondius - Nero VICTORIA AVGVSTI S C, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 66 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR POT 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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| Edge | Plain |
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Nero's VICTORIA AVGVSTI coinage of 66 AD commemorated no specific military victory — a fact that contemporaries would have recognized as fiction. By that year, the Parthian settlement engineered by Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo had technically resolved the Armenian crisis, but Nero's triumphal posturing masked the reality that Corbulo had done the actual fighting. Within two years, Nero would order Corbulo to commit suicide.