Claudius AS - Sestertius Arch of Drusus (O2150)

Claudius (AD 41-54). Orichalcum sestertius (35 mm, 26,9 gm).  Rome, AD 50-5. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head of Claudius right / NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMAN IMP S – C, triumphal arch surmounted by an equestrian statue of Nero Claudius Drusus right, between two trophies; the rider strikes downwards with spear in right hand. RIC 114. BMCRE 188. CBN 212. 

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 as the arch then known the arcus Recordationis (Arch of Remembrance).