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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3131916, member: 74968&quot;]Wow, that is a superb coin. Congrats on landing such a beautiful example. </p><p><br /></p><p>The information I have on the order of minting comes from Alfoldi&#039;s work on the coins of Julius Caesar. This&nbsp; was posted by [USER=58462]@Nemo[/USER] earlier in this thread:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Alföldi arranges Crawford 480 series coins in (44 BC) month order as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>RRC 480/1, Buca - January</p><p>RRC 480/2, DICT QVART - early February</p><p>RRC 480/3/4/5, CAESAR IMP - late February</p><p>RRC 480/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14, DICT PERPETVO - early to mid March</p><p>RRC 480/17/18, CAESAR IMPER - late March</p><p>RRC 480/19/20, PARENS PATRIAE - April</p><p>RRC 480/15/16, MARIDIANVS - April</p><p>RRC 480/21/22, CLEMENTIAE CAESARIS and Mark Antony - April &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like your coin was minted in April of 44 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you contact the ANS they should have a copy of the following article:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Portrait of Caesar on the Denarii of 44 B.C. and the Sequence of the Issues, A. Alföldi, in Centennial Publication of The American Numismatic Society. New York, 1958.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is in German and is a full study of the coinage:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Caesar in 44 v. Chr. Volume I. Studien zur Caesars Monarchie und ihrer Wurzeln 1986; Volume II. Das Zeugnis der Münzen, Bonn. A. Alföldi.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">I found both of these references on [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] &#039;s excellent website:</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Studies.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Studies.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Studies.html</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">I hope this helps,</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Andrew S</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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