Caesar the Elephant Man

Just picked this up last weekend, three “12 Caesars” left to go…

 

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Very nice! Better than mine:


Which 3 Caesars do you need yet? I have every one but the three short-lived A.D. 68-69 emperors (Galba, Otho, and Vitellius).

I've been trying to decide if I should try and get those three, (expensive!) or should I use those funds to upgrade some of the coins I already have.

 

I don’t know why my pictures show up like that, oh well…I still need Caligula, Claudius, and Otho. Got an OK Vitellius earlier this year.

 

Great example @CharlesTheBald !
I like your double strike @The Meat man

Here is FFIVN's example:

Julius Caesar
49-48 BC
AR Denarius
Obverse: CAESAR in exergue, elephant right, trampling on serpent
Reverse: Simpulum, sprinkler, axe and priest's hat
ex: @Orfew

 

Oh weren't you trying to get them all in denarii?

 

Yes, the 9 I have are all Denarii and I think Otho won’t be impossible to find eventually. Caligula and Claudius on the other hand, who knows…but there are still others I need that I can spend my funding on!

 

..wow.. i don't even have one yet!...kool Charles!

 

Best of luck! I think an all-denarii 12 (or more) Caesars set would make an amazing collection. I'd try it myself if those two Julio-Claudians weren't so pricey.

 

Here are your images from above:

 

After you upload your image, you'll see something like this:

Put your cursor where you want the image to go (at the beginning of a line not in the middle of your text) and click on the "Full Image" button.

 

I have a somewhat crummy AS for Caligula and a sestertius and a tetradrachm with Claudius and Agrippa the Younger on it for Claudius. I had a shot at two different Caligula denarii at one show, but the prices were $5 and $6 thousand, and both pieces had been worked on too much for me. I have a very nice Otho denarius in Choice VF.

 

Is Hanable the guy who took his attacking elephant over the mountains. Gaggus Kahn???

 

I want an elephant coin. I don’t care if doesn’t meen anything

 

The OP's coin is very nice. Mine's certainly not terrible; not as nice as that, but it's holed. It was something my dad picked up from the local coin store during the 90's.

Mine's the walking elephant.

 

Nice OP !

Any opportunity to show off my own elephant is good enough !!!


Julius Caesar, Denarius minted in Italy, c.49 BC
CAESAR, elephant walking rigth, trampling on snake
No legend, Simpulum, sprinkler, axe and apex
4.05 gr
Ref : Crawford # 443/1, HCRI # 9, RCV #1399, Cohen #49


Q

 

Hannibal Barca is in fact the Carthaginian General who was the first to cross the Alps with war elephants, during the Second Punic War. He crossed into Spain, threw the territory into open revolt, crossed southern France, over the Alps, and then into Northern Italy. While he failed to siege Rome directly, he did manage to become famous.

 

Here's mine.



I take it everyone here knows how Julius Caesar took the silver from the Roman stores at the temple of Saturn and had these coins struck to pay his troops. The mintage was quite large, which makes them "common" by Julius Caesar standards.

 

I should take a better photo' of mine - this looks like it was taken through mud.



ATB,
Aidan.