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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2681907, member: 74282&quot;]I purchased a coin related to Julius Caesar in the CNG e-auction that closed today so no better day to share it I suppose:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]599676[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Imperatorial period AR denarius(4.04g, 18mm), L Hostilius Saserna, moneyer, 48 B.C., Rome mint. Diademed female head(Pietas or Clementia?) right, wearing oak wreath / Victory advancing right, holding winged caduceus and trophy. Crawford 448/1a; Sear HCRI 17; Sydenham 951; Hostilia 5.</p><p>Ex Lawrence D. Sporty Collection, ex CNG e-auction 259, July 6, 2011, lot 287</p><p><br /></p><p>The moneyer, using the same obverse as that on <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3594650" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3594650" rel="nofollow">Caesar&#039;s military mint issue of the same year, Crawford 452/2,</a> and a reverse of Victory carrying an obviously Gallic trophy with a Carnyx and shield, is showing his support for Caesar and referring to his victories over the Gallic tribes. This coin also has a feature that I&#039;ve been looking for a good example of for a bit: the bumpiness of unstruck areas of Imperatorial-era flans. I chose this example because it illustrated the interesting feature without detracting too much. Notice on the bottom of the obverse bust&#039;s neck the four dots. These are some sort of remnant from flan preparation and appear often on unstruck or weakly strck areas of Imperatorial flans though I am not exactly sure what they are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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