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214, Lot: 357. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.88 g, 11h). Rome mint; A. Hirtius, praetor. Veiled female head (Vesta?) right / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: lituus, capis, and apex. Crawford 466; CRI 56; Sydenham 1017. Fine, ex jewelry.


Aulus Hirtius, praetor at the time this coin was struck, was a close friend of both Cicero and Caesar, and had served as the later’s legate in Gaul. He was consul in 43 BC, having been nominated by Caesar, and was sent along with Octavian and Pansa against Antony, who was besieging Decimus Brutus at Mutina. Hirtius defeated Antony but fell while leading the assault on his camp. He is credited with completing Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic, Alexandrine, African, and Spanish Wars.