Coin Box with the Bust of Julius Caesar

ca. 1600 (Baroque)

12.5 cm 5.1 cm 25.1 cm

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Since the top is decorated with the bust of Julius Caesar, this coin box was probably meant for Roman coins of Roman rulers. Coin collecting was popular among the educated of the 16th and 17th centuries. Coins offered historical documentation for the representation of rulers a...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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