JULIUS CAESAR SILVER DENARIUS – EXCEPTIONAL MUSSIDIUS LONGUS SPECIMEN FROM ADOLPH CAHN’S 1931 SALE AND PLATED IN CORPUS NUMMORUM ROMANORUM – XF NGC GRADED GREEK IMPERATORIAL COIN (Inv. 19358)

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19358. ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. JULIUS CAESAR, d. 44 BC.
Silver Denarius, 3.55 g, 18 mm. Posthumous issue of L. Mussidius Longus from Rome, 42 BC.
Obv. Laureate head of Caesar right. Rev. L MVSSIDIVS LONGVS, cornucopia on globe, rudder to left, winged caduceus and apex to right.
Crawford 494/39a; Sydenham 1096a.
Published: Banti, Corpus Nummorum Romanorum 108/4 (this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Hirsch 4/16/1958, lot 252 = Adolph Cahn 71, 10/14/1931, lot 1372.
NGC graded XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, the Cahn provenance noted on label, with an exceptionally elegant portrait of Caesar combining some of the hyper–realistic physiognomic features of the Republican veristic style with gentler and more classicizing facial features.

ADDENDA – we became aware of the Corpus Nummorum Romanorum citation after the catalogue went to print, therefore it does not appear in the printer version, but see below for images from Banti’s publication.