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Julius Caesar - fouree denarius with portrait of Caesar rare! (JUL2017)
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Julius Caesar 49-48 BC. Military mint travelling with Caesar in Spain
Denarius AR
18 mm., 3,69 g.
Diademed head of Venus right, with Cupid over her shoulder / CAESAR, trophy of Gallic arms, composed of helmet and cuirass, oval shield and carnyx in each hand, two seated captives at base, the one on left a female in attitude of dejection, the one on right a bearded male with hands bound behind him.
almost very fine
Crawford 468/1; CRI 58; Sydenham 1014; RSC 13
Struck in the course of Caesar's war against the Senatorial faction led by Pompey and later Metellus Scipio, Caesar's triumphant coinage trumpets his military achievements and conquest in Gaul, while reminding the bearer also of his claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas.
