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LM42746

Nero, Gold Aureus, Rome, 56-57 AD, Found near Usk, Wales

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Nero (54-68 AD), gold Aureus, Rome mint, struck 56-57 AD, NERO CAESAR AVG IMP, bare head right, rev. PONTIF MAX TR P III P P, around oak wreath enclosing EX S C, 7.70g, 1h, (RIC I 11; Calicó 421; BMCRE 12-3; BN 11; Biaggi 229). Ex CNG 29 may 2019 lot 665, handsome youthful portrait, about extremely fine.

Found near Usk, Monmouthshire in the late 1990s and recorded by Rodney Hudson at Newport Museum.

In circa 55 AD the Twentieth Legion, Valeria Victrix, was moved to Burrium, (present day Usk) to control the restive local tribe, the Silures. Burrium was the first Roman fortress in Wales. While stationed there the Twentieth took part in the defeat of the Ordovices tribe and the invasion of the island of Anglesey, the centre of British Druidism. Subsequently detachments from the Legion fought at Watling Street in the great battle that brought to a bloody end the revolt of Boudica. In 66 AD the Twentieth was sent to Viroconium (Wroxeter) and Burrium was abandoned.

The obverse inscription NERO CAESAR AVG IMP translates to "Nero Caesar Augustus, Imperator."

The reverse inscription PONTIF MAX TR P III P P translates to "High Priest, holder of the Tribunician Power for the third time, Father of the Nation."

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