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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3132192, member: 57495&quot;]I&#039;ve not looked into the references quoted, but the following is Andrew McCabe&#039;s note to the sale of his example of a 480/11 in an auction last year.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;All of the portrait coins of Julius Caesar from RRC series 480 were likely produced prior to his assassination on 15 March 44 BC. The fabric, style, and minting techniques of the coins indicate a number of parallel workshops and not a single sequence as laid out by Alföldi and Crawford. That these coins all pre-date 44 BC is also the view of Bernhard Woytek (see <i>Arma et Nummi</i>, 2004) and Professor T.V. Buttrey, who in a 2015 paper suggests the entire issue was intended as financing for Julius Caesar’s proposed Parthian campaign. The anomolous type RRC 480/20, with an obverse of Caesar and a reverse of Antony’s desultor issue, and known in very few examples from one obverse die, can most easily be explained as an unintended mule.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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