v36_0342 - JULIUS CAESAR Aureus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 3 500.00 €
Estimate : 5 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 3 500.00 €
Estimate : 5 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aureus
Date: 46 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 7,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait. Très joli revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : C. CAESAR - COS. TERT.
Obverse description : Tête voilée de Vesta (ou de Jules César) à droite.
Obverse translation : “Caius Cæsar Consul tertium”, (Caius César consul pour la troisième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A. HIRTIVS PR.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : lituus, vase à sacrifice et hache.
Reverse translation : “Aulus Hirtius Præfectus”, (Aulus Hirtius préfet).
Commentary
Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de 123 coins de droit et de 137 coins de revers.
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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