v18_0258 - JULIUS CAESAR Denier
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
Realised price : 300.00 €
Starting price : 300.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
Realised price : 300.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 46 AC.
Mint name / Town : Afrique, Utique ?
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 950 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,94 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait avec une patine de collection à reflets dorés. Légèrement décentré au revers, mais néanmoins complet
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : COS. TERT - DICT. ITER.
Obverse description : Tête de Cérès à droite, portant boucles d'oreilles et collier, couronnée d'épis.
Obverse translation : “Consul tertius Dictator iterum”, (Consul pour la troisième fois, Dictateur pour la seconde fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVGVR// PONT. MAX.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : simpulum, aspersoir, vase à sacrifice, et lituus ; dans le champ à droite, D.
Reverse translation : “Augurus Pontifex Maximus”, (Augure, grand pontife).
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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