BRUTUS IDES OF MARCH DENARIUS REPRODUCTION COIN

Diameter - c. 19mm 

The original of this coin was struck by a military mint traveling with Brutus in the East, late summer-autumn of 42 B.C.

You are bidding on an exceptional reproduction of an excessively rare  EID MAR denarius of Brutus, celebrating the murder of Julius Caesar two years’ prior struck in high relief, E.F, cast in antiqued metal a. It is exact in detail to the original.

Brutus issued the EID MAR silver Denarius (& Aureus) to remind his soldiers that they fought for the Roman Republic. The reverse of the coin bears the images of two daggers, between which is a liberty cap, an ancient symbol of freedom. The inscription reads EID MAR, meaning "Eidibus Martiis" or "the Ides of March." The message was intended to convey that on the Ides of March, Brutus set the Romans free.

The obverse of the coin features a portrait of Marcus Brutus. The inscription reads BRVT IMP L PLAET CEST, which means Brutus, Imperator, Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus. Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus was the moneyer who managed the mint workers who produced the coin. The Moneyer's name usually appeared on Roman Republican coinage and was a sort of assay mark, guaranteeing the quality of the metal. Imperator meant, roughly, "honored military commander."

You are buying the coin in the picture