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Coin of the Parisii: obverse with horse, 1st century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). Coins of the Parisii ( Metropolitan Museum of Art ). The Parisii ( Gaulish : * Parisioi ; Greek : Παρίσιοι , romanized : Parísioi ) were a Gallic tribe that dwelt on the banks of the river Seine during the Iron Age and the Roman era .
During the Roman Republic, moneyers were called tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo, literally "three men for casting (and) striking bronze, silver (and) gold (coins)". This was a board of the college of the vigintiviri , or Board of twenty (later briefly the Board of twenty-six), vigintisexviri .
Gaius Julius Caesar [a] (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
The coin was a silver denarius that was struck, or made, in the last 24 days of Caligula's life, so this is a pretty old and rare coin that Rick said could be worth up to six figures.
The triumviri monetalis supervised the issuing of Roman coins. Their number was increased by Julius Caesar to four, but again reduced by Augustus. As they acted for the senate they only coined copper money under the empire, the gold and silver coinage being under the exclusive control of the emperor. [4]
It contained a new temple to Pompey's patron goddess Venus Victrix ("Victorious Venus"); the year before, he had issued a coin which showed her crowned with triumphal laurels. [29] Julius Caesar claimed Venus as both patron and divine ancestress; he funded a new temple to her and dedicated it during his quadruple triumph of 46 BCE. He thus wove ...
Throughout these reforms, Augustus did not alter the coins' weight or fineness. The gold aureus, weighing about one-quarter ounce, was worth twenty-five silver denarii, weighing about one-eighth of a troy ounce. [2] Augustus more comprehensively reformed denominations below the denarius.
The Nervii were part of the Belgic alliance that resisted Julius Caesar in 57 BC. After the alliance broke up and some tribes surrendered, the Nervii, under the command of Boduognatus and aided by the Atrebates and Viromandui , came very close to defeating Caesar (the Atuatuci had also agreed to join them but did not arrive in time).