Denarius

Military mint traveling with Caesar

Obverse: Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent; CAESAR in exergue

Reverse: Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex.

18.5mm, 3.77g

Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49; BMCRR Gaul 27-30; Kestner 3515-8; RBW 1557.

Ex CNG Triton XXVII lot 603

“Beautiful iridescent toning, slightly off center obverse, area of weak strike on reverse. EF.

From the J. K. Biblical Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 16 (5 June 2009), lot 292.”

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