Imitation of a Nero sestertius from the Lugdunum mint, struck 1975 AD.,
brass (17 mm / 2,13 g),
Obv.: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONT MAX IMOT P P , laureate head of Nero left, small globe at neck.
Rev.: S - C / DLOCVT OCH / MEKU NP75 , Nero, bare-headed and togate, standing left with praetorian prefect on low platform on right, raising right in address to three soldiers standing right in single file, of whom the two foremost carry standards; in the background, pillared building below battlemented crescent-shaped structure.
cf. RIC 388 / 489 .
Among the most popular of all Roman reverse types are ‘platform scenes’ in which the emperor, Liberalitas, or a multitude of people and deities, address citizens or soldiers. Adlocutio issues – platform scenes where the emperor addresses the army – first occurred on Roman coins under Caligula, and were struck by Nero and subsequent emperors, such as Galba (see his adlocutio sestertius in this sale). Donation scenes such as this, in which the emperor and/or Liberalitas makes distributions to citizens, first occur under Nero. He struck sestertii with two distinctly different scenes, each being congiarium scenes in which a distribution is made to the public. Later, the donativum, in which gifts were made to the army, become popular. In the mid-2nd Century the donative scenes are identified as Liberalitas types rather than congiarium types. The precise event (or events) at which Nero made his donations are not securely known, though the first presumably occurred in 57. Confusion arises from their being numbered I and II, but not being segregated by the two types, by mint, or even by date of striking. Mattingly suggested the distinction I and II may indicate that one donation was of money, and the other of grain.
1975 gab es eine Serie von ca. 10 Nachprägungen antiker Münzen, die als umsatzfördernder Gimmick in in die Deckel von Nescafe-Gläsern eingeklebt waren. Im Innenteil des Deckels befand sich ein kleines Heftchen, in dem die historische Bedeutung der imitierten Stücke erklärt wurde.
MEKU ist eine Firma, die Nachprägungen besonders für Touristen herstellt. NP75 heißt Nachprägung 1975. Es sind eigentlich keine Fälschungen, weil sie korrekt gekennzeichnet sind.
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