I wonder did
Nero actually finance this coin himself, since it lacks the SC of
Senatus Consultus as you point out.
If this is correct/ likely, it makes it an even more intresting coin because it surely means he must have approved it himself, maybe posed for it, and thus a direct link to a
notorious emperor and confirms historical sources about how he saw himself and how he wanted to project
his "image"to all and sundry. An
As is quite a lowely coin monetary
wise but quite large and thus imposing and , at the time, a common coin(?).
A great propaganda peice.
Are there other
denominations of
his also without the SC , eg,
Dupondius or
Sestertius?
Cicerokid