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Galerie > Ancient World > The Roman Empire > Lugdunum (Lyon, France)
 66-67 AD., Nero, Lugdunum mint, As, RIC 543 / 605 var.
Nero, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, emission 4-5, struck 66-67 AD.,
Æ As (28-30 mm / 11,82 g), copper, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 200°), 
Obv.: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P P , his bare-headed head facing right, small globe at point of neck (RIC obverse type 65 A). 
Rev.: S - C , Victory flying left, wings open; before, shield inscribed SPQR, ancient mark x in upper left field (2 crossed cuts).
RIC I 543 / 605 var. (mark, normal type common) ; WCN 593 var. ; BMC 381 var. ; CBN 155 var. ; Giard, Lyon 228 var. ; Coh. 302 var. .

marked by Legio X Gemina (Carnuntum in Pannonia) or Legio X Fretensis (Flavian wars in Judaea) ? For similar countermarks on Nero bronzes cf. D.W. MacDowall, Two roman countermarks of A.D. 68, NC 1960, S. 103-106 and pl. VII, 1 (Legio X Gemina), - cf. C. J. Howgego, Greek Imperial Countermarks, p. 251 ff.

This reverse type, Victory holding a small, round shield, records the awarding of the clupeus virtutis, the shield of valor, to Nero for victories in Armenia won by the able general Corbulo. Late in his reign (67 AD), Nero began to fear Corbulo and ordered him to commit suicide.

Originally coins with the clupeus virtutis were struck in celebration of the Senate's award of the 'clupeus virtutis' of Augustus for the legions' success in Persia and Armenia.
Augustus was given an honorary shield called the clupeus virtutis, the shield of virtue, in 27 BC., a few years after Actium.
On the clupeus virtutis was inscribed the following (original lost, text taken from one of several copies):

SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS IMP CAESARI DIVI AUGUSTO COS VIII DEDIT CLUPEUM VIRTUTIS CLEMENTIAE IUSTITIAE PIETATIS ERGA DEOS PATRIAMQUE
"The senate and the Roman People dedicated to the emperor Augustus, son of the divine Caesar the shield for virtue, clemency, justice, and piety towards the gods and his native land". 
Schlüsselwörter: Nero Lugdunum Lyon As Globe Victory Shield clupeus virtutis Cuts Legio

66-67 AD., Nero, Lugdunum mint, As, RIC 543 / 605 var.

Nero, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, emission 4-5, struck 66-67 AD.,
Æ As (28-30 mm / 11,82 g), copper, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 200°),
Obv.: IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P P , his bare-headed head facing right, small globe at point of neck (RIC obverse type 65 A).
Rev.: S - C , Victory flying left, wings open; before, shield inscribed SPQR, ancient mark x in upper left field (2 crossed cuts).
RIC I 543 / 605 var. (mark, normal type common) ; WCN 593 var. ; BMC 381 var. ; CBN 155 var. ; Giard, Lyon 228 var. ; Coh. 302 var. .

marked by Legio X Gemina (Carnuntum in Pannonia) or Legio X Fretensis (Flavian wars in Judaea) ? For similar countermarks on Nero bronzes cf. D.W. MacDowall, Two roman countermarks of A.D. 68, NC 1960, S. 103-106 and pl. VII, 1 (Legio X Gemina), - cf. C. J. Howgego, Greek Imperial Countermarks, p. 251 ff.

This reverse type, Victory holding a small, round shield, records the awarding of the clupeus virtutis, the shield of valor, to Nero for victories in Armenia won by the able general Corbulo. Late in his reign (67 AD), Nero began to fear Corbulo and ordered him to commit suicide.

Originally coins with the clupeus virtutis were struck in celebration of the Senate's award of the 'clupeus virtutis' of Augustus for the legions' success in Persia and Armenia.
Augustus was given an honorary shield called the clupeus virtutis, the shield of virtue, in 27 BC., a few years after Actium.
On the clupeus virtutis was inscribed the following (original lost, text taken from one of several copies):

SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS IMP CAESARI DIVI AUGUSTO COS VIII DEDIT CLUPEUM VIRTUTIS CLEMENTIAE IUSTITIAE PIETATIS ERGA DEOS PATRIAMQUE
"The senate and the Roman People dedicated to the emperor Augustus, son of the divine Caesar the shield for virtue, clemency, justice, and piety towards the gods and his native land".

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Name des Albums:Arminius / Lugdunum (Lyon, France)
Schlüsselwörter:Nero / Lugdunum / Lyon / As / Globe / Victory / Shield / clupeus / virtutis / Cuts / Legio
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