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REPUBLIC, SILVER DENARIUS OF JULIUS CAESAR, Rome, ca. 44 BC, 3.977g, 10h. Crawford 480/19. Old cabinet tone. Perfectly centered and struck. With a superb portrait of high style. A really dramatic coin... struck during the month before his assassination on the Ides of March. Choice extremely fine

Under pressure from Caesar, the Senate decreed that the dictator's portrait should be allowed to appear on denarii, and the number of moneyers increased to four. For the first time in Roman history, the image of a living individual appeared on the coinage.