Watch List notes:

Julius Caesar (died 44 BC), aureus, Rome, 46 BC, with A. Hirtius as praetor, C CAESAR COS ITER, veiled head of Vesta right, rev., A HIRTIVS PR, lituus, jug and axe, 8.10g, die axis 5.00 (Molinari p. 189, 24, this coin (dies D1/R208); Crawford 466/1; Calico 36; Sear 56; Sydenham 1017), minor marks, extremely fine. Provenance: Hess-Leu 49, 27 March 1971, lot 314. After Caesar's death Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus were the consuls in 43 BC. Along with Octavian they defeated the forces of Mark Antony at Mutina but both consuls lost their lives. Hirtius was a personal friend of Cicero and had served as Caesar's legate in Gaul. As Sear in The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC has noted he was "a man of wide-ranging talents... renowned as a connoisseur of fine food and wine. In the literary field he completed Caesar's Gallic War by authoring the eighth and final book in the period immediately following the dictator's assassination."
(5000-7000 GBP)