Nero and Annona Sestertius

Stories

• The two sides of Nero

  story by Alexander Dorn, Dorien Jansen.

  Emperor Nero is known in Roman history as a bad and cruel emperor. He is even said to have burned down a part of Rome just to make space for his new estate. But this coin shows him in a different light. What would an ordinary Roman citizen have thought of the personage on this coin?

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