brm_353787 - JULIUS CAESAR Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 1 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 1 350.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 44 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,07 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et irrégulier avec un plat sur la légende au droit et au revers. Belle tête de Jules César au droit. Revers de style fin à l’usure régulière. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [CAESAR] - IMPER.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de César à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : M. METTIVS.
Reverse description : Vénus debout à gauche, tenant une Victoriola de la main droite et une lance transversale de la main gauche, appuyée sur un bouclier placé sur un globe ; B dans le champ à gauche.
Commentary
Petite contremarque sur la joue. Cette pièce d’après les classements les plus récents serait bien posthume, frappée après la mort du Dictateur, le 15 mars 44 avant J.-C.
Small countermark on the cheek. This coin, according to the most recent classifications, would indeed be posthumous, struck after the death of the Dictator, on March 15, 44 BC.
Small countermark on the cheek. This coin, according to the most recent classifications, would indeed be posthumous, struck after the death of the Dictator, on March 15, 44 BC.
Historical background
JULIUS CAESAR
(07/13/100-03/15/44 BC)
Julius Caesar, born in 100 BC, belongs to the party of Marius and opposes Sylla at a very young age. He was praetor in 62 BC, before forming with Pompey and Crassus the first triumvirate in 59 BC, the year of his consulship. He then receives a proconsular imperium on Gaul, renewed in 54. He fights Vercingétorix in Gergovie then in Alesia. Besieged, the Gallic leader must surrender. Crassus having been killed at Carrhae, in Mesopotamia, in 53 BC, Caesar got angry with Pompey and marched on Rome in 49 BC. In 48 BC, at Pharsalus, he crushed Pompey who fled to Egypt where he was assassinated. Caesar must then face the sons of Pompey and the Pompeian party. He defeated them at Thapsus (Africa, death of Cato of Utica) in 46 BC and at Munda (Spain, death of Cneius Pompey). Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15, 44 BC) by Cassius and Brutus. He was deified after his death in 42 BC..
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