In 46 BC he was appointed Dictator for ten years, and he gave himself quasi-censorial powers under the mantle of 'Prefect of the Morals', enabling him to fill the Senate with his partisans who duly voted him the titles of Pater Patriae and Imperator. First appointed Dictator in 49 BC by the Praetor (and future Triumvir) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, possibly in order to preside over elections, Caesar resigned his Dictatorship within eleven days but in 48 BC he was appointed Dictator again, only this time for an indefinite period, and was also given permanent tribunician powers making his person sacrosanct and allowing him to veto the Senate. In the years of his supremacy, Caesar had amassed unprecedented power by corrupting the institutions of the old Republic to his own requirements. A superb portrait of Caesar, of fine style and centrally struck.Д®x Yves Gunzenreiner Collection, and reportedly from a French collection of the early 20th century. 3.67g, 21mm, 10h.Д®xtremely Fine a minute scratch beneath the portrait and some minor areas of weakness. SEPVLLIVS MACER, Venus standing left, holding Victory, and sceptre resting on star.CAESAR DICT PERPETVO, wreathed head of Caesar right / P

Denarius with portrait of julius caesar