Roman Series - First of my twelve Caesars. Julius Caesar

North African expedition & subjugation of Gaul. Silver denarii

 

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Very nice !!!! I still need to grab a JC that either has a decent portrait for the price or an attractive non-bronze example like you posted....Congrats!!!

I hope you can re-shoot the coins so the details are a bit more visible...I'm still trying to improve my photo skills and NOW will purchase a stand and lighting accessories to aid my modestly priced camera...perhaps my photos will be as good or not better than the 'sellers' ' I usually post LOL

 

Nice coins! This is the era of coins I like to collect. I have an example of the first, but not the second, and I would love to get one. My example has a darkish toning, but I want to leave it as is.

JULIUS CAESAR
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Diademed head of Venus right.
REVERSE: CAESAR - Aeneas advancing left, carrying Anchises and palladium
Carthage 47 to 46 BC
4.0g, 17mm
CRI 55, Sydenham 1013, RRC 458/1, S 1402

 

Thanks.. I will try and take a better picture next time. My earlier pictures were all using my Galaxy note 2. Poorer quality as you can see in the brighter JC. Whilst when upgraded to the iPhone 5s, the quality became much better.

 

Very nice Bing! Very well centred and sharp strong strike. It is this type of natural toning that makes it much much better.. leave them as it is.. cleaning removes all the 2000 Years of history and accumulated handling which cannot be recovered

 

I couldn't agree more!!!

And a TERRIFIC photo to boot!!!

 

Thanks a lot for sharing Bing

 

Great coins, I really like seeing these photos of JC coins.

Loong Siew-what 12 Caesars coin will be next for you?

 

I actually have all 12.. unfortunately not all are in decent condition or denarii

 

I would love to see a photo of the 12 together if you have one. I am 4 coins away from the set. I am still missing Tiberius, Galba, Titus, and Domitian.

Bing, I would like to see that photo of your 12 Caesars again.

 

Sure.. Here you go sir.

 

Most of us have some example of the 12 Caesars and not all are high grade....the cost can be somewhat prohibitive in that regard, especially those of us on a limited budget.

Like orfew, I would love to see them too....and then we'll post ours. Only a few of us have the 'museum' types we all would love to have...and I'm not one of them LOL


Well, I see you just posted them....

 

Very nice examples of Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula !!!!

I still need to upgrade my 'poor' example of Augustus, but I have a few decent examples of the others:

 

And we're done

 

Very nice coins Loong Siew.

 

Thanks.. Not the best looking though but it fills a theme..

 

Here are several of mine: Denarii of Vespasian, Nero, Otho, Claudius, Vitellius, and Julius Caesar
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Very nice!! Denarii of Claudius, vittelius And a portrait of Julius to moot... excellent

 

My Galba, Otho and Vitellius examples (as you can see we all have 'coins' of various grades):