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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2767887, member: 57495&quot;]This one arrived yesterday - a Roman Republic coin type that I&#039;ve wanted for a few years now.&nbsp; I&#039;ll always remember seeing the most beautiful example in a John Jencek auction in 2014.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t bid on that one and still think about it with a small amount of regret (small only because I later discovered that [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] had won it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; More recently, [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] scored a solid example for a ridiculously good price, and that really spurred me to work at checking this off the ol&#039; want list.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a few unobtrusive bankers&#039; marks on the obverse and slight off-centering on the reverse, but the lovely golden highlights and a pair of excellent Cupids more than make up for it in my eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]637736[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p><b>L. Julius L.f. Caesar</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.91g, 16.8mm. Rome mint, 103 BC. L. Julius L.f. Caesar, moneyer. Crawford 320/1; Sydenham 593. O: Helmeted head of Mars left; above visor, Q and pellet, and behind, CAESAR. R: Venus in biga of Cupids left; Q and pellet above, lyre below, L.IVLI.L.F in in exergue.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Julius Caesar was moneyer in 103 BC, and the issue he struck was the first coin bearing the name CAESAR.&nbsp; Though he failed to achieve quaestorship, he succeeded in being elected praetor in 94 BC, and was thereafter also proconsul of Macedonia.&nbsp; He served as consul in 90 BC, during the Social War, where he led an army to victory against the Samnites.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 87 BC, during the Civil War between Gaius Marius and Sulla, Lucius Julius Caesar and his brother were killed by supporters of Marius while fighting in the streets of Rome, their severed heads then exhibited on the speaker&#039;s platform.&nbsp; His children were cousins of the great dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar, and, through his daughter Julia Antonia, he was the grandfather of the triumvir Mark Antony.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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