Beware the Ides of March!

JULIUS CAESAR AS DICTATOR IN PERPETUITY, MARCH 44 BC

Denarius, Crawford, Roman Republican Coins (RRC), No. 480/8 (March 44 BC - Alföldi)

Coin obverse depiction: Julius Caesar laureate bust facing right

Inscription clockwise from right: CAESAR DICT PERPETVO

Coin reverse depiction: Venus Victrix standing, facing left, holding statuette of victory on palm of right hand and supporting vertical scepter with left hand

Inscription vertical to right: L BVCA (L. Aemilius Buca, Moneyer)

Weight: 3.5g

Provenance: Ex Chris Martin

 

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Congratulations on having such a great coin, I hope to get one someday.....alas their their not getting any cheaper..

 

As, Issued under Octavianus in memory of his uncle and adoptive father:

 

Nice one. My BVCA has Venus seated


CAESAR DICT PERPETVO
laureate head of Julius Caesar right

L BVCA
Venus seated right holding Victory on extended right hand, transverse scepter in left

Struck Feb - Mar 14th, 44 BC.
RCV 1410, RSC 24.

Venus seated' only appears on this one type of Caesar's 'lifetime' issues, on the remainder she is standing.

Lucius Aemilius Buca was a distant relative of the dictator Sulla. This coin was struck within a month of Caesar's murder.

Ex-Incitatus, Ex-CNG Electronic Auction 223, lot 393

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-88096

 

People are probably tired of hearing about how I put my collection together just by cleaning uncleaned coins, keeping what I liked and selling the rest on eBay and then using the profits to buy either another batch of UACs or an already cleaned coin of a specific, needed emperor. (Collective yawn.)

Here's the one exception. I bought this coin--knowing I could never afford one via my usual methods--with money I inherited when my grandmother died (age 95!) about 15 years ago. She left me about $5,000. I bought this coin and a complete set of RIC, and still had a little left over to put toward the cost of a woodworking shop that I was building in my back yard:


Silver Denarius
Rome mint, 44 B.C.
Obv: DICT PERPETVO - CAESAR - Veiled head of Julius Caesar
Rev: P SEPVLLIVS MACER - Venus holding Victory and scepter; shield at base
RSC 39; S362
18 x 20mm, 3.2g.

 

Very nice @jamesicus !

I got mine last year. I wanted the Veiled type, as he was always insistent in his role of Pontifex Maximus... This one is purported to be minted in the last two weeks of his reign.


RImp Julius Caesar Lifetime P Sepullius Macer AR Den 1st 2 weeks-Mar 44 BCE 4.03g. CAESAR – DICT PERPETVO Veiled - Venus Victory sceptre star Syd 1074a Sear Imperators 107e Cr 480-14 Rare


For funzies, I got one of these:

Rimp AR Denarius AR Brutus EID MAR copy by Slavei, ex FSR

I wanted to ensure that @AncientJoe was getting a little competition!!!

 

A sweet coin.

 

Fourree is the only way I will be getting one of these unpopular Brutus coins. I can not believe what fourree EID MAR denarii sell for so I won't be getting one of those.

 

BRVTVS:


RImp Brutus-Ahala 54 BC JBrutus cons 509 BC ServAhala mstr hrse 439 BC S398Cr433-2

HIS BUDDY:


RR Gaius Cassius Longinus & P Corn Lentulus Spinther AR den 42 BCE military mint Brutus Cassius Smyrna Libertas r- jug & lituus 18mm 3.3g

 

I have one of the Slavei copies, too:

 

Nice one @jamesicus !

 

FORMERLY slabbed.

 

I sorry I can't contribute with any lifetime issue, rather I have some posthumous ones



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