Nero, Rome mint, 4th issue, 65 AD.,
Copper As (25-26 mm / 7,90 g),
Obv.: NERO CAESAR AVG GE[RM IMP] , laureate head of Nero right.
Rev.: PACE P R VBIQ PA[RT]A IANVM CLVSIT / S - C , the temple of Janus with latticed windows and garland hung across closed doors set on right.
RIC I, 168, 306 ; CBN II, 163, 400 ; C. 171 ; BMC 227 ; WCN 288 .
The temple of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, was one of Rome’s most ancient centers of worship. It was said that Romulus had built it after he made peace with the Sabines, and that it was king Numa who decreed that its doors should be opened during times of war and shut during times of peace. In all of Roman history until the reign of Nero, the temple doors had been shut perhaps five or six times  once under king Numa (who originated the tradition), once at the end of the Second Punic War, three times under Augustus, and, according to Ovid, once under Tiberius.
In 65 AD, when peace had been generally established in the Empire, Nero understandably requested the closing of the temple’s doors. He marked the event with great celebrations and trumpeted his pacific policy by issuing a large and impressive series of coins. The inscription on this issue announces “the doors of Janus have been closed after peace has been procured for the Roman People on the land and on the sea." The doors of the temple probably remained closed for less than a year, being opened again with the onset of strife in Judaea in 66.
Despite Nero's contentment with affairs on the empire's borders, the year 65 was not a happy one on the home front: much of Rome was still in ashes from the great fire of the previous year, Nero had narrowly escaped murder in the Pisonian conspiracy, and not long afterward he had kicked to death his pregnant wife Poppaea.
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![65 AD., Nero, Rome mint, As, RIC 306.
Nero, Rome mint, 4th issue, 65 AD.,
Copper As (25-26 mm / 7,90 g),
Obv.: NERO CAESAR AVG GE[RM IMP] , laureate head of Nero right.
Rev.: PACE P R VBIQ PA[RT]A IANVM CLVSIT / S - C , the temple of Janus with latticed windows and garland hung across closed doors set on right.
RIC I, 168, 306 ; CBN II, 163, 400 ; C. 171 ; BMC 227 ; WCN 288 .
The temple of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, was one of Rome’s most ancient centers of worship. It was said that Romulus had built it after he made peace with the Sabines, and that it was king Numa who decreed that its doors should be opened during times of war and shut during times of peace. In all of Roman history until the reign of Nero, the temple doors had been shut perhaps five or six times  once under king Numa (who originated the tradition), once at the end of the Second Punic War, three times under Augustus, and, according to Ovid, once under Tiberius.
In 65 AD, when peace had been generally established in the Empire, Nero understandably requested the closing of the temple’s doors. He marked the event with great celebrations and trumpeted his pacific policy by issuing a large and impressive series of coins. The inscription on this issue announces “the doors of Janus have been closed after peace has been procured for the Roman People on the land and on the sea." The doors of the temple probably remained closed for less than a year, being opened again with the onset of strife in Judaea in 66.
Despite Nero's contentment with affairs on the empire's borders, the year 65 was not a happy one on the home front: much of Rome was still in ashes from the great fire of the previous year, Nero had narrowly escaped murder in the Pisonian conspiracy, and not long afterward he had kicked to death his pregnant wife Poppaea.
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65 AD., Nero, Rome mint, As, RIC 306.
Nero, Rome mint, 4th issue, 65 AD.,
Copper As (25-26 mm / 7,90 g),
Obv.: NERO CAESAR AVG GE[RM IMP] , laureate head of Nero right.
Rev.: PACE P R VBIQ PA[RT]A IANVM CLVSIT / S - C , the temple of Janus with latticed windows and garland hung across closed doors set on right.
RIC I, 168, 306 ; CBN II, 163, 400 ; C. 171 ; BMC 227 ; WCN 288 .
The temple of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, was one of Rome’s most ancient centers of worship. It was said that Romulus had built it after he made peace with the Sabines, and that it was king Numa who decreed that its doors should be opened during times of war and shut during times of peace. In all of Roman history until the reign of Nero, the temple doors had been shut perhaps five or six times  once under king Numa (who originated the tradition), once at the end of the Second Punic War, three times under Augustus, and, according to Ovid, once under Tiberius.
In 65 AD, when peace had been generally established in the Empire, Nero understandably requested the closing of the temple’s doors. He marked the event with great celebrations and trumpeted his pacific policy by issuing a large and impressive series of coins. The inscription on this issue announces “the doors of Janus have been closed after peace has been procured for the Roman People on the land and on the sea.\" The doors of the temple probably remained closed for less than a year, being opened again with the onset of strife in Judaea in 66.
Despite Nero's contentment with affairs on the empire's borders, the year 65 was not a happy one on the home front: much of Rome was still in ashes from the great fire of the previous year, Nero had narrowly escaped murder in the Pisonian conspiracy, and not long afterward he had kicked to death his pregnant wife Poppaea.
Schlüsselwörter: Nero Rome As Temple Janus Closed Doors")