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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2760714, member: 75525&quot;]Great coin [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] . I agree the art work on this one is great and production at the mint was less than perfect. I called this coin my non-portrait coin of Julius Caesar because it was minted in 46 BC, the year of Caesar&#039;s quadruple triumph. I can imagine the ones wielding the minting hammers were pushed to produce as many coins per day as they could =&gt; quality suffered. Caesar gave away lots of denarii during the triumph, see below.</p><p><a href="http://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-caesars-triumph/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-caesars-triumph/" rel="nofollow">http://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-caesars-triumph/</a> </p><p>To each soldier he gave 5,000 denarii, to each centurion double that amount, to each military <a href="http://www.livius.org/to-ts/tribune/tribune.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/to-ts/tribune/tribune.html" rel="nofollow">tribune</a> and <a href="http://www.livius.org/pp-pr/prefect/prefect.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/pp-pr/prefect/prefect.html" rel="nofollow">prefect</a> of cavalry double again, and to each member of the <a href="http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/plebs/plebs.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/plebs/plebs.html" rel="nofollow">Plebs</a> one hundred denarii.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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