Semis - Nero MAX TRIB POT P P S C; Roma

Features

Issuer RomeRoman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Emperor Nero (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (54-68)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 62-68
Value 1 Semis = ½ As = 1⁄32 Denarius
Currency Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
Composition Bronze
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
246769
References RIC I# 557,
Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham, Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland, Robert A. G. Carson; 1984. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 1. Augustus – Vitellius (31 BC–AD 69) (1923 revised edition). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
OCRE# ric.1(2).ner.557
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)

Obverse

Head of Nero, bare, left; small globe at point of neck.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PONTIF

Translation:
Imperator Nero Caesar Augustus, Pontifex [Maximus].
Supreme commander (Imperator) Nero Caesar, emperor (Augustus), [high] priest.

Reverse

Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated left on cuirass, holding wreath and parazonium; behind, various arms.

Script: Latin

Lettering: MAX TRIB POT P P S C

Translation:
[Pontifex] Maximus, Tribunicia Potestas, Pater Patriae, Senatus Consultum.
High [priest], tribunician power, father of the country. Decree of the senate.

Mint

Lugdunum, Gaul, modern-day Lyons, France (15 BC–AD 78; 196–197; 274-413)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (62-68) 

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