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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 4799279, member: 99554&quot;]History is a passion for many of us, and when we can combine this interest with coin&#039;s collecting we have the best of both world. There was a Julius Caesar type that I was searching for quite a long time. I had the opportunity to acquire an example for only a few tens of dollars; It has a lot of mileage, but I can only afford it in this kind of shape... And like my wife says when she examines my old damaged face, it is certainly a sign of maturity !</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julius Caesar</b> denarius</p><p>47 BC (traveling mint in Africa)</p><p>3.50g 17mm</p><p>Obv: diademed head of Venus right. Rev: CAESAR legend with Aeneas walking left, carrying his father Anchises and palladium.</p><p>Syd 1013. Craw. 458/1</p><p>Pliego Sale 52</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1165480[/ATTACH]</p><p>This issue was probably struck in Africa during <b>Caesar’s</b> campaign against Metellus Scipio and Labienus in 48-47 BC. The types are purely propagandistic in nature; the obverse depicts Venus, from whom <b>Caesar</b> claimed descent via Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, who was himself the son of Anchises and Venus. The Roman nobility was always at pains to claim descent from either the gods or from mythical heroes, or even more often from both. The reverse depicts Aeneas’ flight from the doomed city of Troy, with his elderly father Anchises upon his shoulder. As seen in the first books of the Aeneid, Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed in battle or enslaved when Troy fell. The city having been sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then travelled to Italy and became progenitors of the Roman people. Although not struck on as massive a scale as <b>Caesar&#039;s</b> well-known elephant type of 49-48 BC, this type is considerably more common than any other coin of Caesar, and was struck to pay for <b>Caesar&#039;s</b> protracted North African campaign against the Pompeians. Shortly after these coins were struck, <b>Caesar</b> returned to Rome as master of the Roman world. Now <b>please show us your JC examples or any coin of historical value !</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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