Brutus - Julius Caesar Roman Assassin 44BC Ancient Greek GOLD Coin NGC MS i53414

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Brutus - Julius Caesar Roman Assassin 44BC Ancient Greek GOLD Coin NGC MS i53414:
$11000.00

Item: i53414

Authentic Ancient Coin of:

Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin ofJulius Caesar
Gold Propaganda Coin with Obverse of his silver Coin from 54 B.C.
with his famous ancestor L. Brutus
Struck under:
Dynast of Thrace: Koson
Gold Stater 21mm (8.43 Grams) Struck After 44 B.C.
Reference: RPC 1701; BMC Thrace pg. 208, 2; BMCRR II pg. 474, 48
Certification: NGC AncientsMS Strike: 4/5 Surface: 4/5 4278038-014
KOΣΩΝ, Roman consul accompanied by twolictors; BR monogram to left
Eagle standing left on sceptre, holding wreath.

Koson: Golden Ally of Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus and C. Cassius Longinus leftfor Greece in August of 44 BC, having failed to win popular support at Romefollowing the assassination of Caesar. In the next two years the tyrannicidescollected an immense war chest as they assembled their forces for the contestagainst Antony and Octavian. The historian Appian (Bell. Civ. IV. 75) tells usthat L. Brutus struck from the treasures consigned to him by Polemocratia, thewidow of the Thracian dynast Sadalas. Although the identity of the \"Koson\" namedon the coins remains uncertain, the coinage in his name must be the coinage ofL. Brutus described by Appian. The obverse depicts the great consul L. JuniusBrutus, who expelled the Tarquins from Rome in 509 BC, accompanied by twolictors bearing axes. The design is copied from the denarius issued by M. JuniusBrutus when he was a moneyer in 54 BC (Crawford 433/1). The reverse, an eaglestanding on a sceptre and holding a victory wreath, was evidently a standardtype at Rome and occurs on the coinage of Q. Pomponius Rufus (Crawford 398/1).The monogram is to be read as BR or LBR (Brutus or L. Brutus). The designsexpress Brutus\' propaganda in the civil war perfectly: the obverse representsthe historic fight against tyranny, and the reverse represents the victoriousRoman eagle.

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