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Julius Caesar, Lifetime Portrait Issue. Denarius; Julius Caesar, Lifetime Portrait Issue; Rome, 44 BC, moneyer P. Sepullius Macer, Denarius, 3.92g. Syd-1072, C-40 (8 Fr.), Sear-Imperators 107b, Cr-480/11. Obv: CAESAR - [DICT] PERPE[VO] Wreathed head r. Rx: P SEPVILLIVS downwards on r., MACER downwards on l., Venus standing l. holding Victory and scepter, star at bottom of scepter. Formerly NGC 3989001-014, Probably from the same obverse die as Alföldi pl. LVI, 48, with legend error PERPEVO (T omitted), not clear however on our coin because of doublestriking. Woytek, Arma et Nummi, pp. 421-3, argues persuasively for a dating of this issue to the weeks just before Caesar's death on 15 March 44 BC.This coin shows Caesar as he may have really looked, not like the beautiful posthumous issues that made him look like a Greek god. Reverse flatly struck in center. EF
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