Issued between 47-46 BCE, this denarius of Julius Caesar features Aeneas fleeing Troy, carrying his father Anchises on his left shoulder while holding the sacred Palladium in his right hand. Circulating widely during Caesar's Gallic campaigns and the civil war period, this design was a significant departure from tradition, which had avoided depicting living individuals or explicit family propaganda. The choice of the father-carrying scene was strategically brilliant - it simultaneously demonstrated pietas (the highest Roman virtue of duty to family and gods) while asserting Caesar’s divine lineage ending with Venus via Anchises. By mass-producing these images on currency used throughout the Mediterranean, Caesar transformed obscure family mythology into widely recognized symbols of his legitimacy, effectively preparing the Roman world to accept his transition from general to dictator to divine figure.