Der goldene Kranz Caesars und der Kampf um die Entlarvung des "Tyrannen"

Abstract

Caesar the dictator was the first Roman granted the honour of placing his own portrait on the coins during his lifetime. That privilege had belonged to the Hellenistic kings; in republican Rome it was until 44 BC an unheard of distinction for a fellow citizen, incompatible with the nature of the free state, since before that only images of great men already dead had appeared there. Older scholarship assigned all portraits of Caesar on the signed denarii to his lifetime, yet Eckhel and Mommsen left open whether some were issued only after the murder; that may now be taken as secure, and the pieces with the veiled back of the head are the first after the Ides of March. The study then treats the leaves of the triumphal wreath, the meaning of the golden wreath, the quarrel over diadem and royal title, and the Marlborough cameo.

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Suggested citation

Kraft, Konrad: Der goldene Kranz Caesars und der Kampf um die Entlarvung des "Tyrannen". In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 3/4 (1952/53), pp. 7–97, 4 Tfn.

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