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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jay GT4, post: 8159855, member: 88526&quot;]It&#039;s always fun when that happens.&nbsp; Good eye to find the match.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several years ago I was looking for a portrait Julius Caesar.&nbsp; A Vcoins dealer had a scarcer reverese with seated Venus rather than standing.&nbsp; No provenance listed.&nbsp; While researching I stumbled on the same coin from a previous CNG auction.&nbsp; Needless to say I bought it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sellers pic:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424124[/ATTACH] </p><p>CNG pic:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424122[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My pic:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424123[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">CAESAR DICT PERPETVO</font></p><p><font size="5">laureate head of Julius Caesar right</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">L BVCA</font></p><p><font size="5">Venus seated right holding Victory on extended right hand, transverse scepter in left</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Struck Feb - Mar 14th, 44 BC.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">3.58g</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">RCV 1410, RSC 24.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Venus seated&#039; only appears on this one type of Caesar&#039;s &#039;lifetime&#039; issues, on the remainder she is standing.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Lucius Aemilius Buca was a distant relative of the dictator Sulla. This coin was struck within a month of Caesar&#039;s murder.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Ex-CNG Electronic Auction 223, lot 393</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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