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Julius Caesar AR Denarius. Military mint travelling with Caesar in Spain, 46-45 BC. Head of Venus to right, wearing stephane; Cupid behind shoulder / Trophy of Gallic arms between two seated captives: female seated left resting head in right hand, and bearded male seated to right with hands tied behind back, looking left; CAESAR in exergue. Crawford 468/1; CRI 58; BMCRR Spain 86; RSC 13. 3.68g, 18mm, 4h.
Very Fine; slightly porous, scrape to reverse, otherwise a well-centred example.
Auctioned in association with and on behalf of Numismática Lucernae, Jaén.
Struck in the course of Caesar's war against the Senatorial faction led by Pompey and later Metellus Scipio, Caesar's triumphant coinage trumpets his military achievements and conquest in Gaul, while reminding the bearer also of his claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas.
Very Fine; slightly porous, scrape to reverse, otherwise a well-centred example.
Auctioned in association with and on behalf of Numismática Lucernae, Jaén.
Struck in the course of Caesar's war against the Senatorial faction led by Pompey and later Metellus Scipio, Caesar's triumphant coinage trumpets his military achievements and conquest in Gaul, while reminding the bearer also of his claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas.