AncientCoinArt.com Presents

RIC 55 of Nerva

Nerva Æ Dupondius. IMP NERVA CAES AVG PM TR P COS II P P, laureate head right / CONCORDIA EXERCITVVM, two hands clasped hads holding legionary eagle resting on prow. Cohen 26.

Lot No.1104. gVF.

$ 250.

M Cocceius Nerva was an old lawyer politician when he was elected to the throne after the assassination of Domitian in 96 AD. He had only a tenuous hold on the army, demonstrated when they successfully demanded Domitian's killers be handed over, but he adopted Trajan as his successor, which successfully consolidated his power until his death in 98 AD.