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Denarius - Julius Caesar CAESAR•IM P M / L•AEMILIVS BVCA
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 44 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Julius Caesar facing right, rendered in bold high relief characteristic of late Republican portraiture. A crescent symbol appears behind the portrait, flanked by the divided legend CAESAR•IMP•M distributed before and behind the effigy. The field is plain and the design is contained within a border of dots. The portrait displays the individualized, veristic features associated with Caesar's authorized lifetime coinage of 44 BC. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Venus Genetrix, ancestral goddess of the Julii, standing left in flowing robes, holding a winged Victory in her extended right hand and a long sceptre in her left hand. The moneyer's name L•AEMILIVS BVCA is distributed in the field before and behind the goddess as a two-part legend. The composition is enclosed within a border of dots, and the bold, elegant rendering of the goddess reflects the propagandistic iconography of Caesar's divine lineage. |
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