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Auction 108  16 May 2018
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Lot 536

Estimate: 10 000 USD
Price realized: 27 500 USD
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January 44 BC. AV Aureus (21mm, 8.08 g, 9h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Venus right; CAES DIC upward to left, QVAR downward to right / COS QVINC within laurel wreath. Crawford 481/1; Alföldi Type II; CRI 117; Calicó 42a; Sydenham 1021; BMCRR Rome 4129; RBW 1694-5; Biaggi 32. Good VF, reverse a bit weak. Well centered. An unusually nice obverse.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gemini V (6 January 2009), lot 772; William H. Williams Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 46, 2 April 2008), lot 438.

Commemorating Caesar's fourth dictatorship and fifth consulship. Sear (CRI p. 80) suggests that this issue was "intended for distribution to notables at the time of the consular ceremonies."
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