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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 4341977, member: 75496&quot;]Interesting thread, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER].&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a coin that was issued to commemorate Agrippa&#039;s re-founding of Caesarea Paneas as <b>Neronias</b>, named for...guess who?&nbsp; Agrippa honored the emperor with this re-naming in 61 AD, but it lasted only until the 30-year-old Nero committed suicide in 68 AD, and the subsequent &quot;damnatio memoriae&quot; by the senate.&nbsp; So there was a short period for coins to spring from Neronias (pun intended as there was a famous spring there where Pan, among others, was worshipped).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099903[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Agrippa II, 49/50- 94/95 AD, under Nero. 54 - 68 AD, large bronze of 23.4 mm, 14.21 grams. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Obverse</i>: Laureate head of Nero right.</p><p><i>Reverse</i>: EΠI/BACIΛE/AΓPIΠΠ/NEPΩ/NIE (<b>in the time of King Agrippa in Neronias</b>) in five lines within wreath. RPC 4988; Meshorer 129; Hendin 1273; TJC 129; RPC 4988.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was once believed that the IE in the reverse legend referred to a date, but this is not correct. Instead it is part of NIE, the abbreviation for the name of the mint city Neronias.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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