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As - Drusus Caesar IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII RESTITVIT
| Uitgever | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Jaar | 80-81 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare head of Drusus Caesar facing left, rendered in fine portraiture characteristic of Julio-Claudian coinage. The portrait displays strong, naturalistic features with cropped hair indicated by shallow engraving. A circular legend in Latin runs along the entire periphery within a beaded border, identifying the subject as son of Tiberius Augustus and grandson of the divine Augustus. The field is flat and unadorned, focusing full attention on the imperial effigy. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N (Translation: Drusus Caesar Tiberii Augusti Filius, Divi Augusti Nepos. Drusus Caesar, son of emperor (Augustus) Tiberius, grandson of the divine Augustus.) |
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This is a restitution issue — struck by Titus in 80–81 AD to reissue coinage of Drusus Caesar, who had died nearly fifty years earlier in 23 AD under circumstances that Tacitus considered suspicious, likely poisoning orchestrated by Sejanus. Restitution series under the Flavians were a deliberate political act, connecting the new dynasty to the prestige of Julio-Claudian predecessors and signaling continuity of imperial tradition after the chaos of 69 AD.
The original Drusus as had been struck under Tiberius, posthumously. Titus reissuing it a generation later is the coin's entire reason for existing.