Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1290. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $6200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERO CLAUDIUS DRUSUS, father of Germanicus and Claudius. Died 9 BC. AV Aureus (7.86 gm). Rome mint. Struck under Claudius, 41-42 AD. Laureate head left / Triumphal arch; DE GERMANIS in entablature; surmounted by statue of horseman left, raising hand and holding sceptre; trophies on either side. RIC I 71 (Claudius); von Kaenel 253 (V203/R203); BMCRE 100 (Claudius); Cohen 3. Good VF, toned. ($7500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 24 (5 December 2002), lot 23; Michael F. Price Collection (Stack's, 3 December 1996), lot 118.

Nero Claudius Drusus, more commonly known as Drusus Senior, was the brother of Tiberius and the father of Claudius and Germanicus. When he was twenty-three, Augustus sent him into Rhaetia to quell a revolt of the Germanic tribes. The enemy was severely defeated and Roman dominion extended to the banks of the Elbe. In appreciation of his success, Drusus was given the surname of Germanicus, and the title was transmitted to his children.