As of Nero - 1992.01
Obv.: Bust of Nero, r., laureate. IMP(erator) NERO CAESAR AVG(ustus) GERM(anicus)
Rev.: Temple of Janus, right door closed and garlanded. PACE P(opuli) R(omani) VBIQ(ue) PART(a) IANVM CLVSIT. In field, S(enatus) C(onsulto).
Title: As of Nero - 1992.01
Culture or period: Roman Imperial
Date: AD 65
Material: Metal - Copper
Object type: Coins - Roman
Acquisition number: 1992.01
Dimensions: 26mm (w)
Origin region or location: Italy
Display case or on loan: 7
Keywords: Coin, as, Roman, Imperial, Nero, Janus
Sear, D.R., Roman Coins and their Values 5 vols (London, Spink, 2000-2014) 1974; Mattingly, H., E.A. Sydenham, C.H. Sutherland, R.A. Carson, The Roman Imperial Coinage 13 vols (London, Spink, 1923-1994) 306; Mattingly, H., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, 6 vols (London, 1965) 227; Giard, J.-P., Catalogue des Monnaies de l’Empire Romain 3 vols (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1988-1998) 400, C171, [Rome AD 65].
1992.01
As of Nero
11.96 g. AD 65
Obv.: Bust of Nero, r., laureate. IMP(erator) NERO CAESAR AVG(ustus) GERM(anicus)
Rev.: Temple of Janus, right door closed and garlanded. PACE P(opuli) R(omani) VBIQ(ue) PART(a) IANVM CLVSIT. In field, S(enatus) C(onsulto).
The coin celebrates universal peace and the traditional mark of this, the closing of the temple of Janus. The reverse legend reads ‘The peace of the Roman people having been achieved everywhere, he closed (the temple of) Janus’. Coins had already advertised this from the year AD 64, when Rome had settled the ‘Parthian question’ in the East. But the ritual was probably repeated in AD 66, when Tiridates, a member of the Parthian royal family, came to Rome to receive the kingship of Armenia formally from Nero (Suetonius, Nero 13). It celebrated probably the greatest achievement of foreign and diplomatic policy of Nero’s reign. Later in AD 66, Nero travelled to the East, but this was for his theatrical performances in Greece.
Sear, D.R., Roman Coins and their Values 5 vols (London, Spink, 2000-2014) 1974; Mattingly, H., E.A. Sydenham, C.H. Sutherland, R.A. Carson, The Roman Imperial Coinage 13 vols (London, Spink, 1923-1994) 306; Mattingly, H., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, 6 vols (London, 1965) 227; Giard, J.-P., Catalogue des Monnaies de l’Empire Romain 3 vols (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1988-1998) 400, C171, [Rome AD 65].
