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Julius Caesar. Silver Denarius (4.11 g), 42 BC.
Rome. P. Clodius M.f.
Turrinus, moneyer. CAESAR before, IMP behind, laureate head of Julius
Caesar right.
Reverse:
P CLODIVS on left, M F on right, Mars standing
facing, head left, holding spear and parazonium. Crawford 494/16; HCRI
114; Sydenham 1123; RSC 37. Boldly struck on a full size flan with incred-
ible detail. Lovely old cabinet tone with a hint of iridescense. An excep-
tional example,
one of the finest in existence
.
Superb Extremely Fine.
The moneyer, P. Clodius, son of Marcus, of whom nothing is known, re-
turned to the realistic style of portraiture that typifies Caesar’s lifetime
issues and which had been replaced the year before with an ideal-
ized effigy of Caesar under the moneyer Flamininus. There are par-
allel issues by P. Clodius for both Mark Antony and Octavian (Craw-
ford 494/17 and 494/18 respectively), each employing the same
reverse type of Mars. The issue was struck to finance the anticipated
war against the republican forces of Brutus and Cassius in the East.
Estimated Value........................................................................ $50,000-UP
Ex UBS 78 (9-10 September 2008), 1131; Ernst Justus Haeberlin Collection
(A.Cahn/A. Hess, 17 July 1933), 2930.
