Lot 3406

Description

Nero, (A.D. 54-68), AE sestertius, Lugdunum mint, issued A.D. 65, (24.96 g), obv. laureate head of Nero to left, around [NERO CLAV]DIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M [TR P IMP P P], rev. around traces of PACE P R TERRA MARIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT, S C across field, temple of Janus with closed doors to right of temple, (cf.S.1958, cf.RIC 439, cf.WCN 420). Green patination, tooled, some surface pitting, otherwise nearly fine with a nearly very fine portrait, scarce with left head.

Ex Andre Cichos, MA Shop dealer, Germany.
An important commemorative issue resulting from the successful achievements of the great general Cn. Domitius Corbulo, and the resulting settlement with Parthia over the vexed Armenian question. This occasioned the formal closing of the doors of the temple of Janus in Rome, signifying peace throughout the empire (A.D. 65). The following year Tiridates of Armenia visited Rome and received his royal diadem from the hands of Nero himself.