Syria: Nero

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Events

Created

When	59-62 CE
Where	Antioch on the Orontes

Commissioned

Who	Nero (37-68)

Owned

Who	Heinrich Wefels (-1931)
When	1914-1931

Was depicted (Actor)

Who	Nero (37-68)

Relation to places

Near East

Keywords

Animal City Classical antiquity Coin Era of Roman Emperors (27 BCE to 395 AD) Plant Portrait Silver Tetradrachm ruler

Description

Front: Büste des Nero mit Lorbeerkranz und Aegis in der Rückenansicht nach r.
Rear: Adler in der Vorderansicht, den Kopf nach l., mit Blitzbündel in den Klauen. Im l. F. Palmzweig.

Inscription

Vorderseite: NEPΩNOΣ KAIΣ[APOΣ - ΣEBAΣTOY]

Material/Technique

Silver; struck

Measurements

Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 14.58 g

Part of

Griechische Münzen in der Römischen Kaiserzeit (2285)

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Von Tiberius zu den Flaviern (919)

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Literature

BMC Syria 174 Nr. 189-193 (Antiochia am Orontes, 59-62 n. Chr.).
M. und K. Prieur, A type corpus of the Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and their Fractions from 57 BC to AD 253 (2000) 13 Nr. 79-82 (Antiochia am Orontes, 59-62 n. Chr.).
R. McAlee, The Coins of Roman Antioch (2007) 137 Nr. 256-258 (Antiochia am Orontes, 59-62 n. Chr.).
RPC I Nr. 4180-4182 (Antiochia am Orontes, 59-62 n. Chr.).