v21_2253 - JULIUS CAESAR Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible des deux côtés. Beau portrait
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Jules César à droite (O*).
Reverse
Reverse legend : Q. VOCONIVS// VITVLVS. Q./ DESIGN/ S|C.
Reverse description : Veau à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Quintus Voconius Vitulus Quæstor Designatus/ Senatus consulto”, (Quintus Voconius Vitulus questeur désigné avec l’accord du Sénat).
Commentary
Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation inférieure à trente coins de droit et inférieure à trente-trois coins de revers. Pour ce type, d’après M. Crawford, un unique exemplaire figurait dans le trésor d’Aquileia. Ce denier est infiniment plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence.
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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