v08_0154 - JULIUS CAESAR Denier
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 327.77 €
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 327.77 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 48 AC
Mint name / Town : Avec César, Grèce
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 950 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet avec une très jolie patine de médaillier. Au droit, deux petites contremarques. Très beau portrait
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire vient de la VSO. Burgan 34 (1993), n°219 (1400FF)
Obverse
Obverse legend : LII.
Obverse description : Tête de Vénus ou de (Clementia) la Clémence laurée et diadémée à droite avec boucles d'oreilles et collier.
Obverse translation : (52).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CAE-SAR.
Reverse description : Trophée gaulois composé d'un grand bouclier ovale, d'un casque, d'une cuirasse, d'un carnyx, d'une hache à sacrifice surmontée d'une tête d'animal.
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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