BITHYNIA. Nicaea. Julius Caesar, as Dictator (49-44 BC). AE (24mm, 7.23 gm, 12h). NGC VF 5/5 - 2/5. C. Vibius Pansa, proconsul, dated Civic Year 236 (47/6 BC). NIKAEΩN, bare head of Julius Caesar right / EΠI ΓAIOV / OVBIOV / ΠANΣA, Nike advancing right, palm frond in left hand over shoulder, wreath upward in right; uncertain monograms to lower left and inner right, ΣΛΣ (date) in exergue. RPC I 2026. BMC 8-9. This issue was one of only two Roman Provincials which have definitive lifetime portraits of Julius Caesar and was the first of them, the other from Lampsacus in 45 BC. The first appearance of his portrait on coinage in Rome was on the denarii of M. Mettius, in January 44 BC. C. Vibius Pansa was part of the Caesarian faction at Rome and was friends with Caesar under whom he served in Gaul. He was elected Plebian Tribune in 51 BC and appointed governor of Bithynia et Pontus in 47 BC. He was the son of Caius Vibius C.f. C.n Pansa Caetronianus, who served as moneyer in Rome in 48 BC.

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