Ads
related to: roman coin identifier julius caesar
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The pileus cap was a Roman symbol of freedom, and was often worn by recently freed slaves. [4] The daggers represent the weapons which were used to kill Julius Caesar. [5] The minting of the coins took place between 43 and 42 BC, coinciding with the Liberators' civil war. The coins were struck by a "military mint" which traveled with Brutus. [6]
[12] The appearance of Julius Caesar implemented a new standard, and the tradition continued following Caesar's assassination, although the Roman emperors from time to time also produced coins featuring the traditional deities and personifications found on earlier coins. The image of the emperor took on a special importance in the centuries ...
On 'Pawn Stars,' a man brought in a rare Roman coin with the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar on it, who was also known as Caligula. Rick's first question was obvious: "Is it real?" The expert, Mark ...
The 404 coins include several Celtic staters, Roman Republican and Imperial currency, and a Greek denarius of Juba I of Numidia (minted in Utica, Tunisia). The Bunnik Hoard is described by the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project as "the largest Roman coin hoard ever discovered in Utrecht and the first mixed composition hoard found in ...
In Book 6 of his Commentaries on the Gallic War, Julius Caesar refers to a Gaulish god whom the druids believed that all the Gauls were descended from. He does not give this god's name, but (following the practice of interpretatio romana) refers to him under the name of a Roman god he deemed comparable: Dis Pater, Roman god of prosperity and of the underworld.
A denarius minted c. 18 BC during the reign of Augustus; Obverse: CAESAR AVGVSTVS; reverse: comet of eight rays with tail upward; DIVVS IVLIV[S] (DIVINE JULIUS). The coinage reform of Augustus refers to the reform of Roman currency undertaken by Augustus in 23 BC.