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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2827733, member: 88829&quot;]I&#039;m totally impressed by what you have started to show of your 12 Caesars coinage,&nbsp; and intrigued by the possibilities of what is yet to come.&nbsp; I just recently completed a 12 caesars set in silver and a writeup on another list.&nbsp; Thanks for the invite to let them tag along with your group. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julius Caesar (44 BC)</b></p><p><b>(Crawford 480/19; <i>RSC</i> 8; <i>BMC</i>(republican) 4187</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]665722[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a coin of the moneyer C. Cossutius Maridianus issued very shortly after the death of Caesar in early 44BC. The obverse bears a portrait of Julius Caesar laureate and veiled. It is one of the first types to bear the title PARENS PATRIAE, ascending on the left. His name CAESAR ascends on the right. In the fields left and right respectively are an apex, a pointed priestly cap the emperor was entitled to wear as one of the <i>flamines</i>, and a <i>lituus</i>, inspired by the staff shepherds used to redirect or rescue sheep, but used as a wand to mark out sacred space in the sky above the worshiping conclave.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse has the name of the moneyer arranged in a crossword pattern, C.COSSVTIVS + MERID IANVS, with the letters A A A FF at angels in the 4 corners as if radiating from the center. These letters stood for the words <i>aere argento auro</i> (the three metals bronze, silver, and gold) <i>flando feriundo</i> (referring to the making of coins). Crawford puts this coin in the class of those that were propaganda for the <i>treviri monetales</i>. The office of &quot;moneyer&quot; was an old honorarium in the Republic, and as a pathway to privilege had been fixed at three as early as 289 BC. That number had been increased to four by Julius Caesar in 44 BC as part of an effort to increase the number of minor magistrates in the imperial administration (promoting upward mobility and gratitude to the emperor). But after his death that number was not long in returning to the historical three.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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