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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2845859, member: 88829&quot;]Great writeup!&nbsp; I enjoyed the insightful observations about his artistic temperament, and the vignettes about the responses of his closest associates. </p><p><br /></p><p>My addition is small, but hopefully meaningful.</p><p><b>Nero Claudius Caesar (64-68)</b></p><p><b>(<i>BMCRE</i> 54; <i>RSC</i> 43; <i>RIC</i> 41)</b></p><p><b>Minted at Rome</b></p><p><b><img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/lrbguy/20170809_6nero-den-test-sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS</b></p><p><b>Laureate head right, with beard</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>AVGVSTVS AVGVSTA</b></p><p><b>Nero radiate, togate, stg. l holding patera in r hand, long scepter in left. </b></p><p><b>Empress veiled and draped, on his right, standing left, holding patera in r hand and cornucopia in l.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The appearance of a radiate crown on the figure of the Emperor owes most likely to an association with the sun as put forward by Dio &quot;who tells us that rays, from no visible source, played on him as a baby.&quot; (Mattingly).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is some disagreement among the catalogers on the identification of the empress on this coin. Seaby (<i>RSC</i>) associates this figure with Messalina. Mattingly (<i>BMCRE</i>) acknowledges the plausibility that the scene may resemble the honors which had been bestowed on Nero and Messalina on a visit to Greece in 66, but regards the coins as dating too early for that association. He prefers to identify the AVGVSTA with the Imperial consort Poppea who died just before the marriage to Messalina in 65. He would place this coin at the beginning of the range for the later undated coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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