SOLD 1/23/2017. THANKS FOR LOOKING. Just put this little lady on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Julius-Caes...859860?hash=item4d52a27354:g:WoEAAOSwo4pYg3w2 IMPERATOR: Julius Caesar DATE STRUCK: ca. 47-46 BC; North African military mint. TYPE: AR Denarius SIZE: 16.35 mm. WEIGHT: 3.25 g. DIE AXIS: 180° OBVERSE: Anepigraphic; diademed head of Venus right. REVERSE: CAESAR downwards, on right; Aeneas walking left, carrying his father Anchises and the Palladium, a statue of Minerva once held at Troy. REFERENCES: B.10; B.M.C. East, 31; Syd. 1013; Craw. 458/1. EX: Ancient Coins Canada, 12/05 NOTES: “This type relates to the mythical descent of the Julia Gens from Iulus, the son of Aeneas, who was the son of Venus.” “Caesar proclaimed his ancestral lineage as descending from the Trojan hero, Aeneas, and through him, to the goddess Venus. The reverse of this coin shows Aeneas in his moment of flight from the burning ruins of Troy, carrying both his father and the embodiment of Minerva/Athena’s protection of that city, the palladium, to safety.”
