Julius Caesar Portrait in Bronze – RPC Online Featured Coin

5697213.

SOLD $2475

MYSIA, Lampsacus. Julius Caesar. 45 BC. Æ (22.5mm, 8.50 g, 12h). Quintus Lucretius and Lucius Pontius, duoviri. Struck circa 45 BC. CG IL, laureate head right; c/m: LAE monogram within pentagram / Q • LVCRETIVS/L • PONTIVS above, II VIR in right field, [COL DED PR] in exergue, priest plowing pomerium with yoke of oxen right. RPC I 2269.10 (this coin); FITA p. 246, (2), pl. VIII, 6. For c/m: Howgego –. Dark brown surfaces, slight roughness, die flaw on reverse. Coin: VF; c/m: Good VF.

Ex Agora Auctions 100 (4 May 2021), lot 79.

RPC notes “The reading L PONTIVS is clear only on (specimen number) 7, where LVCRETIVS has been restored by analogy”. Both legends are clear on the reverse of this coin making it one of the better preserved specimens recorded in RPC.