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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
"Augustus et Augusta" Poppaea Sabina became Emperor Nero's lover in 58 CE, replacing the freedwoman Acte. At Nero's command, she divorced her husband, Marcus Salvius Otho. In 62 CE, she became Nero's second wife after he divorced Octavia, whom he later ordered to be murdered. Poppaea led a lavish lifestyle and was known as a beautiful yet calculating woman. Some of her beauty treatments gained great fame, such as bathing in donkey milk.
It was she who persuaded Nero to murder his own mother, Agrippina the Younger. She was granted the title of Augusta. Poppaea met her end in 65 CE, caused by Nero himself. Suetonius writes: “He killed her with a kick to her belly because she had scolded him for returning late from a chariot race, despite the fact that she was pregnant and unwell.”
Denomination: Denarius, Ag
Obverse: Laureate head of Nero to right, NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS
Reverse: Nero, radiate and togate, standing front on the left, head to left, holding patera in his right hand and scepter in his left; behind him, empress, veiled, standing front, head to left, holding patera in her right hand double cornucopiae in her left., AVGVSTVS AVGVSTA
Mint: Rome, 64-65 A.D.
Weight: 3,40 g
Diameter: 18mm
Provenance: Wójcicki - PDA
Référence : 5.1 RIC I 45, RSC 43
Collection : IMPERIUM ROMANUM 01 - Julio-Claudian