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Rare Gold "Ides of March" Coin Found


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https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/1601719/julius-caesar-assassination-coin-ides-of-march-brutus/

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The golden coin has resurfaced after being hidden away in a private collection – and is just one of three in the world.

Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus AV Aureus. Military mint travelling with ...

 

The coin could fetch easily a million dollars at an upcoming auction.

More information about the upcoming auction. Opening bid is 300,000 GPB. (Thank you Clavdivs at CoinTalk for sharing the auction link.)

 

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Foremost of the reasons for the exalted position of the type in the collective consciousness is its naked and shameless celebration of the murder of Julius Caesar two years earlier in 44 BC.

 

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The simple but bold reverse design employed by Brutus for this aureus contains the three principal elements of this ‘patriotic’ act of regicide committed to liberate the Republic from monarchical tyranny. Most striking are the two daggers of differing design, the one symbolising that wielded by Brutus himself, the other that of Cassius his co-consipirator. These flank the pileus, the cap of Liberty as worn by the divine twins and patrons of Roman armies Castor and Pollux, and which was conferred upon all freed slaves as a mark of their emancipation. The legend EID MAR is the abbreviation of EIDIBVS MARTIIS – the Ides of March. Thus, in an act of unparalleled braggadocio, we are at once presented with the murder weapons used to slay Caesar, the precise date of the deed, and the motive.

 

https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=1300&l=1377214

 

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