From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Denarius of Julius Caesar, Africa

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1942.176.47
People: 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

Medium

silver

Metal

Technique

Struck

Dimensions

3.76 g

Die Axis

Denomination

denarius

Inscriptions and Marks

Reverse Inscription: To r., CAESAR downwards

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: RRC 458/1

Acquisition and Rights

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
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Descriptions

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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