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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Phrygia| > |Other Phrygia| > RP38483
Poppaea Sabina, Wife of Nero, Augusta 63 - 65 A.D., Acmonea, Phrygia
|Other| |Phrygia|, |Poppaea| |Sabina,| |Wife| |of| |Nero,| |Augusta| |63| |-| |65| |A.D.,| |Acmonea,| |Phrygia|, Poppaea was renowned for her beauty and voluptuous extravagance. In 62 A.D., Nero divorced his wife Octavia to marry Poppaea. According to Tacitus, Poppaea married Otho only to get close to Nero and then, in turn, became Nero's favorite mistress, and then wife. She bore Nero one daughter, Claudia Augusta, born 21 January 63, who died at only four months of age. At the birth of Claudia, Nero honored mother and child with the title of Augusta. According to Suetonius, one day in the summer of 65, Poppaea quarreled fiercely with Nero over his spending too much time at the races. She was pregnant with her second child. In a fit of rage, Nero kicked her in the abdomen, killing her.

Unusually long legend for such a small coin. The reverse fields are completely filled with letters.

RP38483. Bronze AE 17, RPC I 3175; SNG Cop 24; SNG Fitz 4914; BMC Phrygia p. 11, 48; Waddington 5495, F, Akmonia (Ahat Koyu, Turkey) mint, weight 2.564g, maximum diameter 16.6mm, die axis 0o, 2nd issue, c. 62 A.D.; obverse ΠOΠΠAIA ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust of Poppaea right, wearing wreath of grain, lion on shoulder; reverse ΣEPOYHNIOY KAΠITΩNOΣ KAI IOYΛIAΣ ΣEOYHPAΣ AKMONEΩN ([magistrates] Servenius Capito and Iulia Severa), Artemis advancing right, drawing arrow and holding bow; a small figure of Nike holding palm and wreath before her; SOLD










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