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Sale 117
September 13-16, 2020 Pre-Long Beach Auction
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Lot 2234 |
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Julius Caesar. Silver Denarius (3.85 g), 48-47 BC. Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right. Reverse: CAESAR, Aeneas advancing left, holding palladium and bearing Anchises upon his shoulder. Crawford 458/1; HCRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12. Boldly struck and perfectly centered with lustrous mark-free surfaces. Lovely old cabinet ton. A superb example! Superb Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $700 - UP
The Roman nobility was always at pains to claim descent from either the gods or from mythical heroes, or even more often from both. The Julia gens claimed mythical descent from Iulus, son of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who himself was the son of the goddess Venus and Anchises. Although not struck on as massive a scale as Caesar's well-known elephant type of 49-48 BC, this type is considerably more common than any other coin of Caesar, and was struck to pay for Caesar's protracted North African campaign against the Pompeians.
Ex Malter (23 November 1997), 328.
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$1,860 |
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Lot 2235 |
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Mark Antony. Silver Denarius (3.57 g), 32-31 BC. Legionary type. Patrae(?). ANT AVG III VIR R P C, praetorian galley right. Reverse: LEG XXI, legionary eagle right between two standards. Crawford 544/37; HCRI 387; Sydenham 1244; RSC 58. Attractive old cabinet tone. Choice Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - UP
Ex Malter (24 November 1996), 665.
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$780 |
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