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138.
Julius Caesar.
Denarius, 3.86g (8h). Rome, 40
BC, moneyer Q. Voconius Vitulus. Obv: Wreathed
head of Caesar right, without legend. Rx: Calf
standing left, Q VOCONIVS above, VITVLVS Q /
DESIGN in exergue, S - C to sides. Crawford 526/4.
Sydenham 1133. Sear, Imperators, 331. Cohen 45
(12 Fr.). Excellent portrait. Lovely surfaces. EF.
NGC XF; Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5
$14,000
Insignificant planchet defect at 10h obverse; in our
opinion, this is an artifact of manufacture, not an
“edge cut” as described by NGC
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139.
Augustus.
27 BC-14 AD. Aureus, 7.86g (7h).
Lugdunum, 15-12 BC. Obv: AVGVSTVS - DIVI F
Head bare right. Rx: IMP.X in exergue, Bull butting
right, pawing ground and flicking his tail. BM 450.
Calicó 212. Cohen 136 (45 Fr.). Paris 1372. RIC
166a (R2). Giard, Lyon, 18, pl. IX (these dies not
illustrated). Virtually Mint State
$10,000
Ex NAC 24, 5 December 2002, lot 14. Ex Sotheby, 7
December 1996, lot 85
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140.
Denarius, 3.70g (3h). Rome, 19 BC. Obv: CAESAR
- AVGVSTVS Head bare right. Rx: TV - [RP]
ILIA[NVS] - III VIR Tarpeia, long-haired, facing,
half buried by shields, hands raised. BMC 29. Paris
157. Cohen 494 (20 Fr.). RIC 299. Toned EF, some
minor porosity
$1,000
Ex Berk 168, 16 March 2010, lot 214
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141.
Tetradrachm, 15.06g (11h). Antioch, Year 30 = 2/1
BC. Obv: ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕ - ΒΑΣΤΟV Laureate
head right; fillet border. Rx: ΕΤΟVΣ - Λ - ΝΙΚΗΣ
Tyche seated right on rock, holding palm branch;
below, river god Orontes swimming right; in field
below palm branch, monograms for COS XIII and
the Antioch ethnic; dotted border. RPC 4156 (21
coins, 7 obv. dies). Prieur 55 (36 spec.). McAlee
185. Near Mint State
$2,000
Ex Berk 191, 29 July 2014, lot 189
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Gaius Portrait
142.
Augustus and Gaius Caesar.
AE 25, 7.75g (10h).
Cyprus under the Romans, 1 AD. Obv: AVGVS[T
TRIB POT] PONT (NT ligate) MAX Laureate head
of Augustus r. Rx: C CAESAR [AVG - F PONT
COS] or [AVG - F PRINC IVVENT] Bare head of
Gaius Caesar r. RPC 3908 or 3909. VF
$500
The titles before the face of Gaius Caesar, which
distinguish RPC 3908 from 3909, are illegible on
this specimen. Our coin is from the same obverse
die as a BM specimen of RPC 3908, illustrated in
Num. Chronicle 1924, pl. II, 26, but according to
RPC that obverse die was also used for RPC 3809,
so the obverse die identity does not allow us to pick
between the two possible reverse legends
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