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Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 25.54 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 36-37. Empty horse-drawn quadriga right / Legend around large S • C. RIC I 66. VF, brown patina, some smoothing and tooling.
Ex Künker 304 (19 March 2018), lot 1032; Hirsch 162 (8 May 1989), lot 492.
The empty Quadriga probably alludes to the action of L. Vitellius against the Parthians, although no decision is known about the attribution of the Signa triumphalia to L. Vitellius. The father of the future emperor had been sent by Tiberius as legatus Augusti pro praetore to Syria, as in Armenia the Parthian king Artabanos III had used his son Arsakes. Lucius Vitellius was extremely successful, not only succeeded in establishing a king of Rome's mercy in Armenia, but also in Parthia himself to install a new king. Artabanos III had to flee to the Scythians.
Ex Künker 304 (19 March 2018), lot 1032; Hirsch 162 (8 May 1989), lot 492.
The empty Quadriga probably alludes to the action of L. Vitellius against the Parthians, although no decision is known about the attribution of the Signa triumphalia to L. Vitellius. The father of the future emperor had been sent by Tiberius as legatus Augusti pro praetore to Syria, as in Armenia the Parthian king Artabanos III had used his son Arsakes. Lucius Vitellius was extremely successful, not only succeeded in establishing a king of Rome's mercy in Armenia, but also in Parthia himself to install a new king. Artabanos III had to flee to the Scythians.