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| | Coins of Caesar |
 | | The reverse of a similar silver denarius of Caesar (minted 47/46 BCE) shows Aeneas leaving Troy, carrying Anchises on his left shoulder and holding in his right hand not Iulus but the Palladium, the statue of armed Athena from the city of Troy, which strongly resembles a Nike figure (Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum). |
 | | The obverse of a denarius of Caesar (Spanish mint, 46-45 BCE), shows the crowned head of Venus, in profile looking left; in front of her are a tiny Cupid and the lituus of the Pontifex Maximus. |
 | | This silver denarius, minted by Octavian in 42 BCE, shows the head of Octavian on the obverse and Caesar's sella curulis, his imperial seat, on the reverse, together with his golden civic wreath and the inscription CAESAR DIC[tator] PER[petuus] (Berlin, Pergamon Museum). |
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