brm_268673 - CLAUDIUS and NERO DRUSUS Sesterce

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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 350.00 €

Type : Sesterce

Date: c. 42

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : copper

Diameter : 35 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 28,66 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Usure importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement lisible. Joli revers, rare et recherché. Fine patine recouvrant un nettoyage ancien

Catalogue references :

C.48 - RIC.114 - BMC/RE.187 - BN/R.212 - MAR.75 - RCV.1852 (4000$)

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.