NAC & a few smaller houses date the coin to Caesar’s known movements through specific Provinces, viz. 49-48” Freeman & Sear, 49, “Northern Italy and Spain” CNG & Roma generally opt for the more conservative, “Military mint traveling with Caesar,” though CNG has indicated dates as precise as “April-August 49” (i.e., after crossing the Rubicon). The most widely adopted is Crawford’s (1974 : p89) date of 49-48.Īmong auctioneers: Heritage, Spink, Stack’s favor “(Northern) Italy, c. date and location of his enemy Metellus Pius Scipio’s elephant denarius, likely based partly on Caesar’s design). Rev: Sacrificial implements: simpulum, sprinkler, axe surmounted by a wolf’s head and priest’s hat. Obv: Elephant walking right trampling on horned serpent CAESAR below. Africa in 47/6 (e.g., CNG Sale 84, Lots 933-4 incidentally, the approx. Julius Caesar (49-48 BC) AR Denarius Military mint traveling with Caesar. Sydenham 1952) have dated it as early as 54 BCE, others occasionally as late as Caesar’s campaign in N. The exact dating and location of this issue are matters of long-standing disagreement among numismatic scholars (see Nousek 2008: 290 the crossing of the Rubicon was 10 or 11 January, 49). Given the well known popularity of visual puns on Roman Republican coinage, it is plausible that the designer of the coin intended both meanings.ĭating & Mint Location. The latter interpretation would also neatly explain why Caesar’s elephant is depicted trunk-upward, as if trumpeting over the sound of the defeated Gauls, while most Greek-world, Carthaginian, and Roman coinage depicted the trunk lowered or curved inward.Ī final intriguing possibility is that both views are correct.
Notice the diagonal Carnyx on either side of the trophy
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