I don"t know if anyone has stumbled across this website, but it is a wonderful diversion and very informative.......and well organized.
It gives a great overview of the coinage of Julius Caesar through his life (and afterwards.) It was put on-line by Macquarie University in Australia (I never heard of it) but they did a nice job. I learned quite a bit.
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/acans/caesar/Home.htm
Enjoy
Mark
Really great, thanks for pointing it out.
This is the right time to mention that there is
still no satisfactory agreed version of the coinage of 44 BC. Crawford's arrangement seems to have lots of flaws; some of those published in the 1950s may be better. There's no consensus as to how much of the coinage was produced before the Ides of March. CAEASAR DICT QVART certainly was, but we don't know what else. I suspect the next path of study has to be economics - who
had the need for the coinage that year? Was it really required by
Julius Caesar or might much of it have been used to pay
his last testament promises? What
military requirements were then at what times of the year? Who would have
had an incentive to issue such coinage? The coinage itself only can tell so much without looking into the financial background.
