Best Of

Today is that fateful day upon which Julius Caesar was assassinated, 2,069 years ago in 44 BC. Post your JC coins, if you have them!


I wanted mine to be an example struck in Caesar’s lifetime, not a posthumous issue. I also wanted it to be Fine or better, with reasonable eye appeal, a decent portrait, and most or all of Caesar’s name legible on the flan.


In other words, I wanted a “happy medium” coin that was nice enough to meet the criteria above, but not TOO nice and therefore unaffordable to me.


For a while I had trouble striking the right balance and came up as the underbidder in several auctions, but finally won this one in a European auction (thankfully before all that tariff stuff started).


It has a slightly ragged flan and a banker’s mark, but I was ready to accept those and chalk them up as “character”. I was satisfied with the outcome when I submitted it to NGC.


This coin has not only Caesar’s name visible but also his DICT PERPETVO (“Perpetual Dictator”) title. Furthermore, it was struck in February to March of 44 BC, within just a few weeks of the assassination.