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Claudius Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 41-45. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M [TR P IMP], laureate head to right / NERO CLAVD[IVS DRVSVS GERMAN] IMP, the triumphal arch of Nero Claudius Drusus, surmounted by equestrian statue of Drusus to right, spearing downwards; trophies to left and right; S-C across fields. RIC I 98; C. 48; BMCRE 122. 30.00g, 35mm, 6h.
Very Fine; some spots of old corrosion, one minor spot of active corrosion.
Ex Antonio Carmona Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 83, 6 May 2021, lot 583.
A triumphal arch was commissioned in honour of Drusus' glorious campaigns in Germania, and was erected by the senate some time after his death in 9 BC (Suet. Claud. 1). It was built of marble and adorned with trophies, and it stood on the via Appia, probably a little north of its junction with the via Latina. It seems to have given its name to the Vicus Drusianus, which may be under the modern Via della Ferratella. It has been suggested that it is the Arcus Recordationis of the Einsiedeln Itinerary (a 9th century guide to the city of Rome), situated near the Baths of Caracalla, however the exact origins of that arch are unclear and modern scholarship takes the view that this arch is not that of Drusus.
Very Fine; some spots of old corrosion, one minor spot of active corrosion.
Ex Antonio Carmona Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 83, 6 May 2021, lot 583.
A triumphal arch was commissioned in honour of Drusus' glorious campaigns in Germania, and was erected by the senate some time after his death in 9 BC (Suet. Claud. 1). It was built of marble and adorned with trophies, and it stood on the via Appia, probably a little north of its junction with the via Latina. It seems to have given its name to the Vicus Drusianus, which may be under the modern Via della Ferratella. It has been suggested that it is the Arcus Recordationis of the Einsiedeln Itinerary (a 9th century guide to the city of Rome), situated near the Baths of Caracalla, however the exact origins of that arch are unclear and modern scholarship takes the view that this arch is not that of Drusus.