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Gratus issued several different types of coins in as many years. The symbols represented on his coins included palm branches, lilies, cornucopia, grape leaves and amphorae. [9] His coins showed Caesar's title within a wreath, and the Emperor's name 'TIB' or his mother, Julia (IOYLIA), and the year of his reign above two cornucopiae. [6]
After Caligula's death, Claudius became the new emperor. Nero's mother married Claudius in AD 49, becoming his fourth wife. [a] [3] On 25 February AD 50, [b] Claudius was pressured to adopt Nero as his son, giving him the new name of "Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus". [c] [11] Claudius had gold coins issued to mark the adoption. [12]
Nero coin: Obverse: Nero; Reverse: Ara Pacis. Later emperors also closed the Gates of the Janus to great fanfare. The most famous closures occurred under Nero and Vespasian. Nero minted a large series of coins with the Ara Pacis (and the Janus itself with closed gates) on the reverse to commemorate this event. Other emperors certainly closed ...
Starting with Nero in 64 AD, the Romans continuously debased their silver coins until, by the end of the 3rd century AD, hardly any silver was left.. A predecessor of the denarius was first struck in 269 or 268 BC, five years before the First Punic War, [3] with an average weight of 6.81 grams, or 1 ⁄ 48 of a Roman pound.
The dupondius, formerly a two-pound bronze coin, was now orichalcum, valued at half a sestertius and weighing half as much. The half-ounce as , worth half a dupondius, the semis , worth half an as , and the quadrans , worth half a semis, were the first pure copper coins minted in Rome since 84 BC .
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
Nero Julius Caesar (c. AD 6–31) was the adopted grandson and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, alongside his brother Drusus. Born into the prominent Julio-Claudian dynasty , Nero was the son of Tiberius' general and heir, Germanicus .
Nero as Following the coinage reform of Augustus in 23 BC, the as was struck in reddish pure copper (instead of bronze), and the sestertius or 'two-and-a-halfer' (originally 2.5 as ses, but now four as ses) and the dupondius (2 as ses) were produced in a golden-colored alloy of bronze known by numismatists as orichalcum .