Denarius
Julius Caesar, Roman Imperial, Roman Empire
47-46 BCE
Silver
Overall: 13/16 in. (20 mm)
Weight: 3.7 g
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29267
Geography/Culture
Europe, Italy
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Classification
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscription
Obverse: Head of Venus wearing diadem right Reverse: Aeneas striding left, head reverted, holding palladium in extended right hand and Anchises on left shoulder; CAESAR downwards before
Course History
LAT 15, Literature of Rome, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019
HUM 3.02, Two Empires under the Sun, Roberta Stewart and Gil Raz, Spring 2019
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
CLST 17, HIST 94, Roman History: The Republic, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
From Art to Artifact: Making Sense of Roman Coins, Roman Numismatics Senior Seminar, Spring 2009, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June13, 2009.
Artifacts of the Roman Empire, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18-November 5, 1990.
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
Catalogue Raisonne
Crawford 1974: 458/1;Terrace 1958: p. 9, no. 4
Old Number
HN 175
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