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Sestertius - Nerva CONGIAR P R S C, Liberalitas and Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 96 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II#71, OCRE#ric.2.ner.71 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (96) |
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Nerva's first congiarium — a direct cash distribution to the Roman people — was announced almost immediately after his accession in September 96 AD, following the assassination of Domitian. The gesture was calculated. Nerva was an elderly senator with no military base, no dynastic claim, and a senate still exhaling from fifteen years of fear. Buying public goodwill through largesse was not generosity; it was survival politics.
RIC II #71 commemorates that first distribution. Nerva's reign lasted just sixteen months before his death in January 98 AD.