Drusus, Restoration Issue Under Titus

Just sharing a coin you don't see every day.



Restoration issues of any emperor(s) welcome!

 

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I don't have any restoration issues but I do have the original type of your coin JA!

Edit: Tried shrinking the pics a bit

 

Nice!

 

The other Drusus, Tiberius' younger brother, minted under Claudius

 

Agrippa, minted under Caligula

AGRIPPA
AE As
OBVERSE: M AGRIPPA L F COSIII - Head left, wearing rostral crown
REVERSE: No legend - Neptune standing left, holding dolphin and trident; S C across fields
Rome 37-41 AD
11.0g, 28mm
RIC58, BMC 161, BN77, C3

 

Cool thread JA!!

How about another 'almost' Emperor.....

Since Drusus and Agrippa are taken, I'll offer an As of Germanicus struck by Caligula circa 37-41 AD:

 

Cool coins friends

 

Drusus Caesar Æ As. Struck under Tiberius, 21-22 AD. DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare head left / PONTIF TRIBVN POTEST ITER around large S•C.
RIC 45 (Tiberius), Cohen 2, BMC 99

 

oh man, i don't have anything like this either.

well, cool score JA...rugged but appealing!

 

Cleaned enough to show the features, then left in peace. I definitely prefer this look to smoothing. If I wanted smooth coins I'd collect Morgans.

 

Haha!

 

Ok, what's a "Restoration issue?"

 

I don't have any restoration issues of an emperor, so how about a restored issued from the Roman Republic? This denarius was issued by supporters of Sulla ca. 82-80 BC, and was a restored issue of Q. Fabius Maximus, moneyer in 127 BC. Crawford suggests that the true purpose of this coin was "to enable Sulla to issue a civil coinage without appointing a new triumvirate of moneyers for 82 BC or, alternatively, to celebrate the restoration of the Republic in 80." (Sear's Roman Coins, p.127)


Roman Republic
C. Annius T.f. T.n. Luscious and L. Fabius L.f. Hispaniensis
ca. 80 or 82 BC
restoration issue under Sulla
AR denarius 3.5gm - 15 mm
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right; ROMA behind; * (XVI monogram) below chin; Q MAX (MA in monogram) or Q MX below; before, lyre
Rev: Cornucopiae over thunderbolt, all within wreath
Ref: Cr. 371/1, Syd 718, SR295

 

NICE example. Well done.

 

Drusus has been on my list for decades. Both issues are appealing to me...one day !!

Restoration issues are issues in the name of an emperor (or any character of importance), made by a later ruler to honor them.

Q

 

Thank you.

 

You're welcome
Some of mine


Augustus, Posthumous as struck under the reign of Tiberius
DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, Radiate head of Augustus left
PROVIDENT, Altar, S C in field
11.02 gr
Ref : Cohen #228, RCV #1789, RIC I # 81


Germanicus, As Restitution by Caligula
GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVGVST F DIVI AVG N, Bare head of Germanicus left
C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT around large SC
10,64 gr
Ref : RCV #1821, Cohen #1



Antonia, As Restitution of Claudius
ANTONIA AVGVSTA, bust of Antonia right
TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP, Claudius standing left, holding simpulum. SC in field
11,37 gr
Ref : RCV #1902, Cohen #6

Q

 

Boy that Antonia is nice. There others are beautiful as well, but I'm sure you know that the Antonia is much rarer in that condition.

 

I have to disagree here. I use the term 'Restitution' for coins issued by a later ruler that match a coin issued previously by an earlier authority. I use the term 'Consecration' for coins meeting Cucumbor's definition. To me, most coins shown here are not Restitution issues. JA's OP certainly is because Titus reissued or restored the type of Caligula consecrating Drusus. Bing showed an Agrippa as of Caligula but recently I saw one of these restored by Domitian which added a Domitian legend on the reverse where the original had none.

My holey Augustus is a restoration by Nerva of an original by Tiberius.


The best of the Restoration genre are Trajan's large series of individually rare restored types of the Republic and early emperors. I wish I owned even one to show but they are Triton sale level rarities even in moderate condition. Their reverse legend ends in REST which is where we get the term restored for coins reissued. This one from Triton XIX sold for $90k plus add-ons. Augustus did issue a croc reverse coin (of considerably different style) so I can accept this as a restoration.

Another popular and more common marked REST issue is the Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus restoration of the Mark Antony legionary type released on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Actium.


To me, the cool part of this coin is the required expansion of Antony's obverse which is ANT AVG. Since Aurelius (and Pius before him) was Antoninus which also abbreviates ANT, the name of Antonius had to be spelled out. On the original Antony was titled AVG which then meant Augur but after Augustus made those three letters mean something Antony never claimed to be it was necessary to expand the title on the restored coin to AVGVR. The reverse legend reads ANTONINVS ET VERVS AVG REST. You need one of these, right?

 

so basically if it has REST then it's restitution issue?
I think Titus also had an As of Galba and a dupondius of Augustus with REST