JULIUS CAESAR SILVER DENARIUS – POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT ISSUE OF VOCONIUS VITULUS EX SALTON COLLECTION (Inv. 18288)

$8,500.00

ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. JULIUS CAESAR, d. 44 BC.
Silver denarius, 3.90 g, 21 mm. Posthumous issue struck by Q. Voconius Vitulus in Rome, 40 BC.
Obv. Laureate classicizing head of Caesar right, lituus in left field. Rev. Q VOCONIVS VITVLVS, calf standing left.
Crawford, 526/2; Sydenham, 1132.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s-1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded CHOICE AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, with a highly detailed and sharply struck portrait of Caesar, executed in a more imposing and elegant “idealized” style than that seen on the earlier lifetime coins.

Published: Vilmar Fixed Price List IV, no. 101.