bpv_311206 - OCTAVIAN AND JULIUS CAESAR Unité

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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 100.00 €

Type : Unité

Date: c. 28-27 AC.

Mint name / Town : Thessalonique, Macédoine

Metal : copper

Diameter : 21 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 6,45 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan très épais bien centré des deux côtés. Beaux portraits. Patine marron superficielle

Catalogue references :

RPC.1555 pl. 77 - BMC.60 - GIC.151 var

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Jules César à droite (O*).

Obverse legend : QEOS, (Qeos).

Obverse translation : (Divin).

Reverse

Reverse description : Tête nue d’Octave à droite (O°5).

Reverse legend : QESSA-LONIKEWN/ D.

Reverse translation : (de Thessalonique/ D).

Commentary

Poids léger. Pour ce type, les auteurs du RPC ont recensé 61 exemplaires avec dix-neuf coins de droit avec un poids moyen de 7,33 g pour 51 exemplaires.

Historical background

OCTAVIAN AND JULIUS CAESAR

Eighteen-year-old Octave, born in 63 BC, was in Apollonia at the time of his great-uncle's death. He rushed to Rome to collect the family inheritance because he had been adopted by Caesar. He changed his name to Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus and decided to form during the year 43 the second Triumvirate with Marc Antoine and Lépide. He was not yet twenty. Octave will fight to conquer power for thirteen years before becoming Augustus on January 16, 27 BC. During all these years and even after, he presents himself as the son of Caesar and his successor.

OCTAVIAN AND JULIUS CAESAR Dupondius VF

300.00 €

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OCTAVIAN AND JULIUS CAESAR Dupondius XF

80.00 €