TYPE Greek Imperial, Drusus ? (22-3 AD), bronze AE17 of Philippi ? (Macedonia) DESCRIPTION . Obv: Bare head r.; legend: [D]R - AVG (or: TI - AVG ?) Rev: Priest ploughing with oxen r. REFERENCE: LK 274, cf. RPC 1659 (for legend DRV AVG) GRADING: F+ / VG+, green patina, edge chips, some porosity ORDER INFO: R2850, $38 More recent hoard finds and other research have brought into question traditional attribution of these types to Parium (Mysia), suggesting Philippi in Macedonia instead. Ruler attribution conjectural (relayed from major auction house where acquired), though Tiberius in reality more likely. Drusus was Tiberius' son from the first marriage, and the heir apparent to the throne (or technically, highest office) in Rome, following the death of Germanicus; his influence was apparent from the fact that he was allowed to mint money in his own name, upon assumption of Tribunician powers in 22 AD. However, like many others in those days, he never lived to take the office, having been eliminated in a plot engineered by the ambitious praetorian prefect, Sejanus.