Dr Adrian Carr Collection of Imperatorial Roman Coins
Lot 4772 Session 17 (11.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Colle Dr Adrian Carr Collection of Imperatorial Roman Coins
Estimate $3,000
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SOLD $2,100
JULIUS CAESAR, (assassinated 44 B.C.), silver denarius, Rome mint, issued April 44 B.C., (3.42 g), an issue shortly after Caesar's assassination on the Ides (15th) of March, issued in the name of the moneyer Gaius Cossutius Maridianus, obv. laureate and veiled head of Julius Caesar to right, C[AESAR] PARENS PATRIAE around, lituus below chin, apex behind, rev. C. COSSVTIV[S] AND [MA]RIDIANVS arranged in form of a cross, A[A]AFF in the angles, (S.1422, Sear Imperators 112, Cr. 480/19, Syd.1069, BMC 4187). Off centred, weak in places, with flat areas, clear portrait and dark tone, otherwise good very fine and a rare type.
Ex Dr. Adrian Carr Collection acquired in 1994 from Canberra Coins, coming from a Stacks auction.
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