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Session Six - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 approx. 1:00 PM
3428
Julius Caesar. Silver Denarius (3.89 g), 49-48 BC.
Military
mint traveling with Caesar. CAESAR in exergue, elephant
advancing right, trampling horned serpent.
Reverse:
Pontifical
implements: simpulum, sprinkler, axe and priest's hat. Crawford
443/1; HCRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49.
NGC grade AU;
Strike: 4/5, Surface: 4/5
.
Estimated Value ................................................... $400 - 500
3429
Julius Caesar. Silver Denarius (3.95 g), 46 BC
. Utica(?).
COS TERT behind, DICT ITER before, head of Ceres right,
wreathed with grain ears.
Reverse:
[A]VGVR above, PONT MAX
in exergue, emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpu-
lum, sprinkler, capis and lituus; in right field, M (
Munus
). Craw-
ford 467/1b; HCRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4.
NGC grade
Choice Extremely Fine; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 5/5
.
Estimated Value ................................................... $600 - 700
3430
Julius Caesar. Silver Denarius (4.0 g), 44 BC
. Rome. L.
Aemilius Buca, moneyer. [CAE]SAR DICT PERPET[VO], laureate
head of Julius Caesar right.
Reverse:
L BVCA, winged caduceus
and fasces in saltire; globe, in angles, axe, globe, and clasped
hands. Crawford 480/6; Alföldi type XIII; HCRI 103; Sydenham
1063; RSC 25.
NGC grade Choice Very Fine; Strike: 2/5,
Surface: 5/5
.
Estimated Value ..............................................$2,000 - 2,500
Enlargement
3431
Julius Caesar. Silver Denarius (5.6 g), 40 BC.
Rome. Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. DIVI IVLI before, laureate head of Julius Caesar right;
behind, lituus.
Reverse:
Q VOCONIVS above, VITVLVS in exergue, bull-calf walking left. Crawford 526/2; HCRI 329; Sydenham 1132; RSC 46.
Although struck partially off - centered, the portrait is complete and quite expressive. Nicely toned.
Very Fine
.
The coins of Q. Voconius Vitulus and his colleague, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, in 40 BC present us with the last moneyer issues of the Capito-
line mint at Rome with the exception of a small group produced more than two decades later during Augustus'principate.
Estimated Value .....................................................................................................................................................................$3,000 - 3,500
