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Exceptional Arch of Drusus

156, Lot: 148. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1761. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Sestertius (37mm, 28.95 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 50-54. Laureate head right / Arch of Nero Claudius Drusus: triumphal arch surmounted by statue of warrior on horse rearing right, spearing downward and flanked by trophies. RIC I 114; BMCRE 188; Cohen 48. Good VF, dark green and brown patina, obverse a little rough, some smoothing and strengthening of details.



The Arch of Nero Claudius Drusus was erected by order of the Senate sometime after the death of Drusus in 9 BC. Located on the Via Appia, it commemorated his victories along the German frontier. Eventually, the presence of the arch may have lent its name to the surrounding region, known colloquially known as the vicus Drusianus (Drusus' district). By the late fourth century AD, the arch itself may have survived, though it was possibly known as the arcus Recordationis (Arch of Remembrance)