brm_355665 - DRUSUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 23
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 35,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 25,36 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Au droit défaut de métal à 8 heures. Joli revers avec les têtes de jumeaux bien venues mais de frappe molle. Belle patine marron
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Cet exemplaire provient de la collection MG
Obverse
Obverse legend : DRVSVS. CAESAR. TI. AVG. F. DIVI. AVG. N. TR. POT. II.
Obverse description : Grand S C pointé au centre.
Obverse translation : “Drusus Cæsar Tiberius Divi Filius Augusti Nepos Tribunicia Potestate iterum/ Senatus Consulto” (Drusus césar fils du divin Tibère auguste petit-fils d’Auguste revêtu de la seconde puissance tribunitienne/ avec l’accord du Sénat).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Deux cornes d’abondance entrecroisées terminées par deux têtes d’enfants, Germanicus et Tiberius Gemellus affrontées ; au milieu, un grand caducée ailé.
Commentary
Selon les exemplaires, S C au droit se trouve avec un point au centre ou encore en dessous ou, plus rarement, avec un point au-dessus de chaque lettre.
Historical background
DRUSUS
(13 BC-23 AD)
Drusus, son of Tiberius and Vipsania, is the grandson of Agrippa by his mother and of Livia by his father. He was born in 13 BC. Augustus, when he chose Tiberius to succeed him in 4 AD, forced him to adopt Germanicus, his nephew, son of his brother Nero Drusus and Antonia, to the detriment of his own son of Tiberius, Drusus. When Germanicus dies under mysterious conditions in 19, Drusus returns to center stage, being Tiberius' closest heir. Drusus takes his second consulship with his father in 21 and sees himself conferring the following year the tribunician power. In 19, Drusus and his wife Liville had twins, two boys, Tiberius Gemellus and Germanicus. Germanicus dies in infancy. Tiberius Gemellus is adopted by Tiberius at the same time as Caius, son of Germanicus and Agrippina. He will be liquidated by his cousin, Caligula, after the death of Tiberius in 37. Liville, the cousin of Drusus (daughter of Néron Drusus and Antonia), is also the mistress of the prefect of the praetorium, Séjan. Lovers poison 35 year old Drusus.
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