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Quadrans P M TR P IMP P P S C
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 62-68 |
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| Value | 1 Quadrans = 1/4 As = 1⁄64 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | NERO CLAV CAE AVG GER (Translation: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Nero Claudius, Caesar, emperor (Augustus), victor over the Germans.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck under Nero during the period when he had consolidated imperial authority following the death of Burrus and the removal of Seneca, this quadrans belongs to a series of small bronze issues that kept the lowest tier of Roman retail commerce functioning. The quadrans was worth a quarter of an as — enough to buy a cheap loaf or pay a public bath entry fee, per ancient sources including Juvenal.
RIC I 317 is a reasonably well-documented type but attribution can be complicated by the number of similar quadrantes struck across 64–68 AD, years that also saw the Great Fire and Nero's subsequent building program strain imperial finances.