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Tetradrachm - Nero and Poppaea ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΗ LΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria |
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| Year | 64-65 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse lettering | ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΑΥ (Translation: `Neron Klaudios Kaisar Sebastos Germanikos Autokrator` (Nero Claudius Cesar August Germanicus Emperor)) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Poppaea Sabina appears on Alexandrian coinage only briefly — she died in 65 AD, and ancient sources, including Suetonius and Tacitus, attribute her death to a kick from Nero himself, possibly while she was pregnant. The joint portrait tetradrachms of this regnal year are therefore among the last struck bearing her likeness, produced in the same Egyptian fiscal year as her death.
Alexandria's billon tetradrachms of this period were the dominant currency of Roman Egypt, a closed monetary system in which only locally-minted coinage was legal tender — imported silver was confiscated and reminted at a profit to the imperial treasury.