Roman Imperial aureus 66-67 AD. Nero Very fine

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Rome.
Obv: IMP NERO CAESAR AUGUSTUS; laureate head of Nero to the right.
Rev. IUPPITER CUSTOS; Jupiter seated to the left, holding thunderbolt in his right hand and long sceptre in his left.
Some scattered marks.

Nero has gained notoriety through his setting fire to Rome in 64 AD., although this hasn’t been proven. Though he did use part of the cleared area for the building of his palace, the “Domus Aureus”.
Contemporary sources like Suetonius and Tacitus always give him an unfavorable appreciation and even today he’s still remembered as a mad and cruel ruler. He even tried to kill his mother, who, it must be said in Nero’s defense, wasn’t a paragon of virtue and honesty herself.
In 65 AD., G. Calpurnius Piso, a Roman statesman, organized a conspiracy against Nero. According to Tacitus, many conspirators wished to "rescue the state" and restore the Republic. The conspiracy failed and its members were executed. The coin below refers to the discovery of the conspiracy: the text on the reverse translates as “Jupiter protects”
To finance his megalomanic dreams Nero raised taxes again and again, until people started to rebel and his close associates abandoned him. Declared a public enemy by the Senate, Nero fled to a villa outside Rome, where he, on his own orders, was killed by a freedman.

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