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Sestertius - Nero DECVRSIO S C
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 62-68 |
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| Value | 1 Sestertius = 1/4 Denarius |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Nero facing right, rendered in high relief with characteristic fleshy features and elaborately engraved curly hair falling at the nape of the neck. The emperor is depicted with a broad, rounded neck and draped shoulders, in the mature portrait style associated with his later reign. The circumferential legend in bold Latin capitals reads NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, distributed around the full periphery of the flan within a beaded border. The portrait conveys the imperial gravitas typical of Julio-Claudian coinage from the Rome Mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The DECVRSIO type commemorates the military exercises — cavalry maneuvers specifically — that Nero performed publicly, partly as theatrical spectacle and partly as calculated propaganda to shore up credibility with the army. He had no genuine military record, and these staged displays were widely mocked by the senatorial class, though they apparently played well enough with the troops and urban crowds who watched them.
Struck across a broad date range before Nero's forced suicide in 68 AD, the issue spans the period of his increasingly erratic rule and the first stirrings of the Year of the Four Emperors.