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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 2279393, member: 76111&quot;]Here&#039;s another, but 120 years later after the puns had become more blatant. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a posthumous issue with Caesar under Octavian by one of the last of the Republican moneyers which was a tradition that stretched about 250 years.&nbsp; Octavian restored it briefly well into his reign only to have it vanish from history forever.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Vitulus translates into &quot;bull calf&quot;, or veal as we know it today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.78 g, 6h). Rome mint. Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Wreathed head of Caesar right / Bull-calf walking left; Q • VOCONIVS above, VITVL[V]S • Q/DESIGN in two lines in exergue. Crawford 526/4; CRI 331; Sydenham 1133; Kestner -; BMCRR Rome 4311-2; RSC 45.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455348[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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