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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8134550, member: 110350&quot;]My example of the same type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417286[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, changing the subject, Drusus Minor or Drusus Major or the third Drusus (see below).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Drusus Minor/the Younger that I bought this fall but haven&#039;t posted before; I believe it&#039;s one of only two coins in his name issued by his father:</p><p><br /></p><p>Drusus Minor or the Younger, full name Drusus Julius Caesar (13 BCE-23 AD, son of Tiberius and Vipsiana), AE As, 23 AD, Rome Mint, issued by Tiberius. Obv. Bare head left, DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N / Rev. PONTIF TRIBVN POTEST ITER around large SC. RIC I Tiberius 45, Sear RCV I 1794 (ill. p. 353), BMCRE Tiberius 99, Cohen 2. 28 mm., 10.4 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417306[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>By contrast, Drusus Major/the Elder (Nero Claudius Drusus) (38 BCE - 9 BCE) was Tiberius&#039;s brother, and the father of both Germanicus and the Emperor Claudius I. There was a third Drusus (known as Drusus Caesar) who was one of Germanicus&#039;s sons and, with his brother Nero (not the future emperor) the adoptive grandsons of Augustus following the death in AD 23 of Drusus Minor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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