fme_701015 - CLAUDIUS and NERO DRUSUS FAUX SESTERCE / COUNTERFEIT SESTERTIUS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : FAUX SESTERCE / COUNTERFEIT SESTERTIUS
Date: n. d.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,17 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène marron, de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Claude à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Tiberius Claudius Cæsar Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Imperator Pater Patriæ”, (Tibère Claude césar auguste grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne empereur père de la patrie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMAN IMP// S|C.
Reverse description : Arc triomphal surmonté d'une statue équestre de Drusus bondissant à droite encadré de deux trophées.
Reverse translation : “Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Imperator”, (Néron Claude Drusus germanique imperator).
Historical background
CLAUDIUS and NERO DRUSUS
(41-42)
Nero Drusus, born in 38 BC, is the son of Nero Tiberius Claudius and Livia, the younger brother of Tiberius. He married Antonia, the daughter of Marc Antoine and Octavie. He died of a fall from a horse in 9 BC. Claudius, at the beginning of his reign, restored the memory of his father, Nero Drusus, of his mother, Antonia, of his brother, Germanicus, and of his beautiful -sister, Agrippina mother, in 41-42.
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