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Drachm - Tiberius and Drusus the Younger DRVSVS CAES TI AVG F COS II P IT
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 32-33 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Drusus the Younger facing left, rendered with fine portraiture in the classical Roman style, displaying closely cropped hair and a youthful, idealized physiognomy. The neck is cleanly truncated. The surrounding field carries the Latin legend naming Drusus as son of Tiberius Augustus, consul for the second time and holder of tribunician power for the second time. The portrait is characteristic of the provincial drachm coinage struck at Caesarea in Cappadocia under Tiberius. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This issue belongs to a narrow window of Tiberian coinage produced at Caesarea in Cappadocia, not Rome — the eastern mint operating under Roman authority to supply silver for regional military and administrative payments. Drusus the Younger, honored here as co-consul, had in fact been dead since 23 AD, making this a posthumous association nearly a decade after his death, likely intended to reinforce dynastic continuity as Tiberius aged without a clear living successor.
The timing is notable: 32–33 AD falls squarely within the years Sejanus's influence had already collapsed — his execution came in 31 AD — leaving Tiberius increasingly isolated on Capri.