Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Julius Caesar AV Aureus. Rome, early 46 BC. A. Hirtius, praetor. Veiled female head (Vesta?) right; C•CAESAR COS•TER around / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: lituus, guttus, and securis; A HIRTIVS PR around lower left. Crawford 466/1; CRI 56; Calicó 37b. 8.15g, 20mm, 11h.
Extremely Fine; wonderful deep red-purple tone consistent with the Boscoreale hoard of 1895.
Purchased from V.C. Vecchi & Sons, 1982.
From the Boscoreale hoard of 1895.
The famous Boscoréale hoard, recovered in 1895, consisted of 109 pieces of gold and silver plate, along with over 1,000 gold aurei. The hoard had belonged to the owners of a wine-producing villa rustica on the south-eastern slopes of Vesuvius near the modern-day village of Boscoréale, hence its name. The hoard was placed in an empty cistern in the wine cellar of the villa when its owners fled before the eruption of AD 79, and while the villa began to be excavated in 1876 the coins remained undisturbed until 1895. The intense heat of the eruption combined with the presence of volcanic ash imbued all the gold coins with the beautiful red toning that we now see.
Extremely Fine; wonderful deep red-purple tone consistent with the Boscoreale hoard of 1895.
Purchased from V.C. Vecchi & Sons, 1982.
From the Boscoreale hoard of 1895.
The famous Boscoréale hoard, recovered in 1895, consisted of 109 pieces of gold and silver plate, along with over 1,000 gold aurei. The hoard had belonged to the owners of a wine-producing villa rustica on the south-eastern slopes of Vesuvius near the modern-day village of Boscoréale, hence its name. The hoard was placed in an empty cistern in the wine cellar of the villa when its owners fled before the eruption of AD 79, and while the villa began to be excavated in 1876 the coins remained undisturbed until 1895. The intense heat of the eruption combined with the presence of volcanic ash imbued all the gold coins with the beautiful red toning that we now see.