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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hellbent, post: 3185828, member: 87924&quot;]<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/25/b4/5025b43ddb2366d2139ae9df768d2d04.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><i><font size="4">Silver denarius, Crawford 480/13, Sydenham 1074, Sear CRI 107d, RSC I Julius Caesar 39, BMCRR I Rome 4173, SRCV I 1414, Vagi 56.</font> </i></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">In the year 44 BC, on the 14th of February, Julius Caesar was given the title Dictator for life, as written on the obverse - CAESAR DICT PERPETVO.&nbsp; Just one month later he was stabbed to death. In between those two events this particular coin was struck. The portrait shows Caesar wearing a veil, a symbol for the office of Pontifex Maximus (chief high priest), which he acquired 19 years earlier, after having spent obscene amounts of loaned money on bribes.</font></p><p><font size="5">On the reverse, the name of the moneyer P SEPVLLIVS MACER encircles the goddess Venus, who holds Victory in her outstretched right hand and a scepter, resting on a shield, in her right. At the time it was well known that Caesar actually regarded Venus as an ancestor of his.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">To sum it up; Here is Caesar; descended from the gods; supreme master of both state and religion. No wonder this coin has been called “The coin that killed Caesar”.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">[USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] has done an excellent job describing another portrait coin from the C. 480-series <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-controversial-portrait-of-julius-caesar.249014/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-controversial-portrait-of-julius-caesar.249014/">here</a>.</font></p><p><font size="5">One may also enjoy a most informative thread started by [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finally-a-lifetime-portrait-of-julius-caesar.317878/page-3" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finally-a-lifetime-portrait-of-julius-caesar.317878/page-3">here</a>.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Please feel free to post anything related to Caesar, coins by Macer, veiled portraits, Pontifex Maximus etc.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Have a most excellent day</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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