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Sold! 47/46 BC Julius Caesar
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Diademed head of Venus right, wearing necklace, hair collected into a knot, falling in two locks
CAESAR
Aeneas, naked, advancing left, head facing, holding palladium in extended right hand and bearing his father, Anchises, wearing long tunic and hood, on his left shoulder.
Military mint moving with Caesar in North Africa.
47-46 BC
3.5g
Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12.
Ex-Munzhandlung Polak
The reverse depicts Aeneas’ flight from Troy, with his elderly father Anchises on his shoulder. Virgil's epic poam The Aeneid tells the story of Aeneas. When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group of Trojan's and then travelled to Italy and became progenitors of the Roman people.
Probably struck in Africa during Caesar’s campaign against the remaining Pompeian's. The obverse depicts Venus, from whom Caesar claimed descent via Iulus, son of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who was the son of Anchises and Venus.
Sold to Calgary Coin Sept 2022
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