Incredible series. The fine details are mind-numbing, I don't know how you keep it all together, but I wish to honor the research and the writing however I can. Probably just living a better local, physical life and resisting manipulation, deception, and trickery of all kinds.
I've been busy trying to proof and correct all of my math and logic. The numbers and implications have thoroughly fried my brain. Hopefully I can iron it all out at some point.
This is all good work. But supposing you keep going for 35 years like Gunnar Heinsohn. You keep knocking out years and people from history. You will wind up two thirds of the way to where Team Fomenko is. Probably best to get to where they are at already and see if there are years and people to add back. See whether you can refine any of their findings.
By 44 B.C. silver denarii with Caesar’s image were being widely issued in Rome. These coins served as a signal that his individual authority was becoming a threat to the sovereignty of the Republic. Caesar’s coins trace a political career fraught with war and power struggles. But they offer an alternate perspective of Rome’s chaotic transition from the glory days of the Republic and the Augustan Age of the Empire.
Silver Denarius issued in 47/6 B.C.
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Julius Caesar was born into a prominent Roman family, one that counted the founder of Rome and the goddess Venus as ancestors. A silver denarius of 47 to 46 B.C. (shown above) celebrates Caesar’s illustrious ancestry from the goddess Venus (on the obverse) and the mythological founder Aeneas (on the reverse) carrying his father away from burning Troy. As one version of Rome’s foundation mythology was recorded, Aeneas went on to found Rome and the Gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar ascended the political ladder of Rome, in 60 B.C. becoming a member of the unprecedented alliance known as the First Triumvirate with two powerful Romans: Pompey and Crassus. In their assertion of power, these three men took command of Rome’s provinces. Caesar then became Consul in 59 B.C. and campaigned in Gaul, defeating fierce Gallic tribes and expanding Rome as far as the English Channel.
The coin that killed Caesar." The obverse legend declares Caesar is "Dictator for Life" and he wears the veil, symbolic of his life-term position as Pontifex Maximus. Caesar would be both the dictator and high priest of Rome for the remainder of his life, but his life would end only a few weeks after this coin was struck. For Caesar to put his image on coins and in effect declare himself king was too much for Brutus and his republican allies. On the Ides of March (15 March) 44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed to death by as many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theater of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The ides of March have come," meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied, "Aye, Caesar, but not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March."
Minted for Caesar's planned Parthian war, this type was often carelessly struck indicating the mint was working under great pressure.
SH45450. Silver denarius, Crawford 480/13, Sydenham 1074, Sear CRI 107d, RSC I Julius Caesar 39, BMCRR I Rome 4173, SRCV I 1414, Vagi 56, Choice gVF, magnificent portrait, weight 3.660 g, maximum diameter 19.2 mm, die axis 225o, Rome mint, moneyer P Sepullius Macer, Feb - Mar 44 B.C.; obverse CAESAR DICT PERPETVO, veiled and wreathed head of Caesar right; reverse P SEPVLLIVS MACER, Venus standing left, Victory in extended right hand, long scepter in left hand, shield at feet right; SOLD
An ‘elephant’ denarius minted for Caesar in 49 or 48 B.C.
Incredible series. The fine details are mind-numbing, I don't know how you keep it all together, but I wish to honor the research and the writing however I can. Probably just living a better local, physical life and resisting manipulation, deception, and trickery of all kinds.
I've been busy trying to proof and correct all of my math and logic. The numbers and implications have thoroughly fried my brain. Hopefully I can iron it all out at some point.
This is all good work. But supposing you keep going for 35 years like Gunnar Heinsohn. You keep knocking out years and people from history. You will wind up two thirds of the way to where Team Fomenko is. Probably best to get to where they are at already and see if there are years and people to add back. See whether you can refine any of their findings.
Numismatics though: https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5243/NGC-Ancients/
By 44 B.C. silver denarii with Caesar’s image were being widely issued in Rome. These coins served as a signal that his individual authority was becoming a threat to the sovereignty of the Republic. Caesar’s coins trace a political career fraught with war and power struggles. But they offer an alternate perspective of Rome’s chaotic transition from the glory days of the Republic and the Augustan Age of the Empire.
Silver Denarius issued in 47/6 B.C.
Click image to enlarge.
Julius Caesar was born into a prominent Roman family, one that counted the founder of Rome and the goddess Venus as ancestors. A silver denarius of 47 to 46 B.C. (shown above) celebrates Caesar’s illustrious ancestry from the goddess Venus (on the obverse) and the mythological founder Aeneas (on the reverse) carrying his father away from burning Troy. As one version of Rome’s foundation mythology was recorded, Aeneas went on to found Rome and the Gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar ascended the political ladder of Rome, in 60 B.C. becoming a member of the unprecedented alliance known as the First Triumvirate with two powerful Romans: Pompey and Crassus. In their assertion of power, these three men took command of Rome’s provinces. Caesar then became Consul in 59 B.C. and campaigned in Gaul, defeating fierce Gallic tribes and expanding Rome as far as the English Channel.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=523
The coin that killed Caesar." The obverse legend declares Caesar is "Dictator for Life" and he wears the veil, symbolic of his life-term position as Pontifex Maximus. Caesar would be both the dictator and high priest of Rome for the remainder of his life, but his life would end only a few weeks after this coin was struck. For Caesar to put his image on coins and in effect declare himself king was too much for Brutus and his republican allies. On the Ides of March (15 March) 44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed to death by as many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theater of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The ides of March have come," meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied, "Aye, Caesar, but not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March."
Minted for Caesar's planned Parthian war, this type was often carelessly struck indicating the mint was working under great pressure.
SH45450. Silver denarius, Crawford 480/13, Sydenham 1074, Sear CRI 107d, RSC I Julius Caesar 39, BMCRR I Rome 4173, SRCV I 1414, Vagi 56, Choice gVF, magnificent portrait, weight 3.660 g, maximum diameter 19.2 mm, die axis 225o, Rome mint, moneyer P Sepullius Macer, Feb - Mar 44 B.C.; obverse CAESAR DICT PERPETVO, veiled and wreathed head of Caesar right; reverse P SEPVLLIVS MACER, Venus standing left, Victory in extended right hand, long scepter in left hand, shield at feet right; SOLD
An ‘elephant’ denarius minted for Caesar in 49 or 48 B.C.
Click image to enlarge.