- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1942.176.47
- People
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Issued by Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)
- Title
- Denarius of Julius Caesar, Africa
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 47 -46 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa
- Period
- Roman Republican period
- Culture
- Roman Republican
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- silver
- Metal
- AR
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.76 g
- Die Axis
- 7
- Denomination
- denarius
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Reverse Inscription: To r., CAESAR downwards
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- RRC 458/1
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The George Davis Chase Collection of Roman Coins, Gift of George Davis Chase, Professor of Classics and Dean of Graduate Study at the University of Maine
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.176.47
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Head of Venus r., diademed. Border of dots.
Rev. Aeneas l., carrying palladium in r. hand and Anchises on l. shoulder; to r., CAESAR downwards. Border of dots.
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