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Rare gold coin with Nero's face found in Jerusalem
Christian Today ^ | 09-15-2016 | James Macintyre

Posted on 09/16/2016 8:35:08 AM PDT by NRx

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1 posted on 09/16/2016 8:35:08 AM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

Nero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero


2 posted on 09/16/2016 8:36:32 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: NRx; SunkenCiv

Very cool!


3 posted on 09/16/2016 8:37:24 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: NRx

For some unknown reason, nobody is allowed to see the reverse of the coin. I’ve searched the web for days without success.


4 posted on 09/16/2016 8:40:09 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: NRx
The TR P III gives the date.

TR P = tribunicia potestas or tribunician power...held by reigning emperors and sometimes by their intended successors. Claudius died on October 13, 54, so Nero's third year of tribunician power would have run from Oct. 56 to Oct. 57.

5 posted on 09/16/2016 8:43:08 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Godebert

Maybe it shows his “marriage” to Sporus. ;)

There was a joke going around Rome after he did that, that said it would have been better for Rome if Nero’s father had taken that sort of wife.


6 posted on 09/16/2016 8:43:50 AM PDT by Claud
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To: NRx

“AVG IMP”

Yes, I guess he was your average imp.


7 posted on 09/16/2016 8:45:15 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: NRx

A few hundred years from now, someone will find a rare gold coin with Hitlery’s face on it.

The accompanying story will be something like: “Hillary Clinton, first Empress of the The American Empire. Known for playing her fiddle while DC burned and an accomplished murderer. Also known to be equal to the Earth God.


8 posted on 09/16/2016 8:49:09 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Godebert

http://wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s1922.html#RIC_0008


9 posted on 09/16/2016 8:49:38 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Godebert
For some unknown reason, nobody is allowed to see the reverse of the coin. I’ve searched the web for days without success.

I'm guessing it's a picture of a loon?


10 posted on 09/16/2016 8:53:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Claud
An example of the same type in lesser condition:

This example sold for only $1,010.10 in 2004.

11 posted on 09/16/2016 8:54:04 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Larry Lucido

“AVG” probably mean “August” and “IMP” likely stands for “Imperator”..


12 posted on 09/16/2016 8:55:22 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: NRx

You sure that’s not bernie sanders? :)


13 posted on 09/16/2016 9:01:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: redfreedom

No, Obama is much closer to Nero; Narcissistic, head-strong and demanding and selfish (but equally foolish and ignorant), distracted by pleasures and “wine and song” (no women for Obola!), and sinking the nation into the “bread and circuses” of entertainment and diversion.

For pure corruption? Hillary by a mile.
For evil and intent? Obola, by a little bit.
For venality and lack of serious intent, lack of morals? Bill.


14 posted on 09/16/2016 9:02:18 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: NRx
the inscription "NERO CAESAR AVG IMP."

"Nero Caesar, Average Imp"? I would think he was much worse.

OK, serious question: how much would such a coin have been worth in its day? The article doesn't say, except that it would have been "extremely valuable," which is a given.

P.S. Why is it that every time I open a web link from FR, one of the ads on the page is anti-Trump? You'd think their systems could discern that spending money on such ads posted to someone coming from FR would be a waste.

15 posted on 09/16/2016 9:02:25 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Godebert

An image search for “reverse nero coin” returns multiple gold coin images that match the reverse description of a wreath, ex sc, etc.


16 posted on 09/16/2016 9:05:28 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Illary uses BleachBit to scrub her medical history...)
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To: NRx
Find another one and do something really useful with them


17 posted on 09/16/2016 9:07:36 AM PDT by Daffynition (*If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?*~ Gene Wilder)
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To: NRx

Absolutely Fascinating!


18 posted on 09/16/2016 9:11:58 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: NautiNurse

I was referring to a reverse image for the specific coin. Not the type.


19 posted on 09/16/2016 9:12:25 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; NRx; redfreedom
Obama is much closer to Nero

Actually, I think he is much closer to Commodus: the "real" Commodus, not the caricatures in either The Fall of the Roman Empire or the more recent Gladiator.

He even, IIRC, replaced Nero's bust at the Colosseum with his own--and he was left-handed, which is a coincidence but also something in common.

20 posted on 09/16/2016 9:16:35 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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