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: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29267
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
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
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
HUM 3.02, Two Empires under the Sun, Roberta Stewart and Gil Raz, Spring 2019
LAT 15, Literature of Rome, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 18.01/HIST 94.06, History of the Roman Empire, Roberta Stewart, Fall 2022
Economics 22.01, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023
Economics 22.02, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023
Economics 22.02, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Artifacts of the Roman Empire, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18-November 5, 1990.
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.
Money Talks: Roman Coinage in Global, Historical Context, Classical Studies 11, Professor Roberta Stewart, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 2, 2022-May 17, 2025.
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
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