Q VOCONIUS VITULUS JULIUS CAESAR DENARIUS – POSTHUMOUS ISSUE – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERATORIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 21199)

$8,500.00

21199. ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. JULIUS CAESAR, died 44 BC.
Silver Denarius, 4.19 g, 20 mm. Posthumous issue struck by Q. Voconius Vitulus in Rome, 40 BC.
Obv. Laureate classicizing head of Caesar right. Rev. Q VOCONIVS VITVLVS Q DESIGN, calf to left, S–C flanking.
Crawford 526/4; Sydenham 1133.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 3/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed.” Although showing wear at the high points of the head, this pleasing coin depicts a finely engraved portrait of Caesar, combining hyper–realistic (veristic) features such as the thin, wrinkled neck with more modern and heroic–looking “classicizing” features, an image totally at the crossroads between the now–defunct Republic and the beginning of the Roman empire.