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HISTORICAL ROMAN COINS
Rev. A triumphal arch, surmounted by an
equestrian statue of Drusus, charging r.
with spear couched, between two trophies,
each with a captive at its foot; inscription,
DE GERM.
Aureus. 7'69 grammes (118'7 grains). British Museum.
Nero Drusus, the younger brother of Tiberius, and
the favourite stepson of Augustus, died on 14th Sept.,
9 b.c., as the result of a fall from his horse on his way
from the Elbe to the Rhine. His body was brought to
Rome, his brother Tiberius walking all the way beside
the bier, and his memory was honoured in an unpre-
cedented manner. A splendid funeral was partial
compensation for the triumph of which death had
robbed him. A cenotaph was erected to him on the
Rhine, near Moguntiacum, and a marble triumphal
arch on the Via Appia. The Senate ordered the
setting up of various statues, and granted to him and
to his descendants the name of Germanicus.
The triumphal arch and the name Germanicus
are both recorded on the aureus No. 104. This coin
and all the others relating to Drusus are obviously
posthumous ; the question is whether they were struck
immediately after his death, or much later. Owing,
presumably, to the fact that a coin with the portrait
of Drusus was struck by his son Claudius after he
became Emperor, it has been supposed that all the
pieces referring to the German victories date from the
H.R.C. M 161
Rev. A triumphal arch, surmounted by an
equestrian statue of Drusus, charging r.
with spear couched, between two trophies,
each with a captive at its foot; inscription,
DE GERM.
Aureus. 7'69 grammes (118'7 grains). British Museum.
Nero Drusus, the younger brother of Tiberius, and
the favourite stepson of Augustus, died on 14th Sept.,
9 b.c., as the result of a fall from his horse on his way
from the Elbe to the Rhine. His body was brought to
Rome, his brother Tiberius walking all the way beside
the bier, and his memory was honoured in an unpre-
cedented manner. A splendid funeral was partial
compensation for the triumph of which death had
robbed him. A cenotaph was erected to him on the
Rhine, near Moguntiacum, and a marble triumphal
arch on the Via Appia. The Senate ordered the
setting up of various statues, and granted to him and
to his descendants the name of Germanicus.
The triumphal arch and the name Germanicus
are both recorded on the aureus No. 104. This coin
and all the others relating to Drusus are obviously
posthumous ; the question is whether they were struck
immediately after his death, or much later. Owing,
presumably, to the fact that a coin with the portrait
of Drusus was struck by his son Claudius after he
became Emperor, it has been supposed that all the
pieces referring to the German victories date from the
H.R.C. M 161