Aureus - Julius Caesar C•CAES DIC•TER / L•PLANC PR•VRB

This aureus belongs to a small group struck under the moneyer Lucius Munatius Plancus, serving as praetor urbanus in 45 BC while Caesar held his third dictatorship. Plancus was a consummate political survivor — he later backed Antony, then defected to Octavian at a critical moment, and is credited by some ancient sources with proposing the title "Augustus" to the Senate in 27 BC. That a man so central to the transition from Republic to Empire was also responsible for this late-Republican gold issue gives it an unusual biographical weight.

Caesar's third dictatorship was declared following Thapsus. He would be dead within the year.