Ancient Roman Silver Coin for Emperor Nero year 54 AD . He burned Rome
$200.00 USD
Ancient Roman Silver Coin for emperor Nero year 54 AD. Nero was the 5th Roman emperor and the last emperor of the Julio Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great uncle Claudius and became Claudius heir and successor. His reign extended from 54 AD to 68 AD. Nero was famous that he ordored burn the Great Fire of Rome in year 64 AD. Nero ordored to burn the fire of Rome to clear space for his new palace. In his first five years as emperor, Nero gained a reputation for political generosity, promoting power-sharing with the Senate and ending closed-door political trials, though he generally pursued his own passions and left the ruling up to three key advisers—the Stoic philosopher Seneca, the prefect Burrus and ultimately Agrippina. . Eventually Seneca encouraged Nero to step out from his domineering mother’s shadow. She turned against him, promoting her stepson Britannicus as the true heir to the throne and protesting Nero’s affair with his friend’s wife Poppaea Sabina. But Nero had learned his mother’s lessons well: Brittanicus soon died under dubious circumstances, and in 59, after a failed plot to drown her in a collapsible boat, Nero had Agrippina stabbed to death in her villa. The empress Octavia was exiled and executed, and in 62 Nero and Poppaea were married. Three years later, in what the Roman historian Tacitus described as “a casual outburst of rage,” Nero killed Poppea with a single kick to her belly. the final years of his Nero’s rule, the Roman Empire was under great strain. Reconstruction costs in Rome, revolts in Britain and Judea, conflicts with Parthia and rebuilding expenses in the capital forced him to devalue the imperial currency, lowering the silver content of the denarius by 10 percent. In 65 a high-level conspiracy to assassinate the emperor emerged, leading Nero to order the deaths of a prefect and several senators and officers. The emperor’s old advisor Seneca was caught up in the affair and forced to commit suicide. Very special authentic Silver Coin . its weight is 13.50 gr and diameter 27 mm. To see more press on " Mohamad"
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