..i won this last week with the help of microsoft and my friend Pat! ...microsoft sent 'the end of life' update to my windows 7 dell computer 2 mondays ago and totally shut it down with loss of all files and pics..with Pats help, i got another computer(i'm on it now) and with her at the helm of her handheld and us on the phone with me telling her how to sniperolleyes last week, we were able to bring this home..and because she went over the amount i wanted to bidnailbiting, she made over half of the cost a early Christmas giftwoot:)..but i am so happy to have it!..its long been on a dream list for this is the Brutus who Caesar named in his will and thought and said so much about and who walked him(Caesar) to his death and plunged a blade in himself...now i have a coin for the Idles of March... Post your coins n comments! Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus(April 81-Sept 43BC) Denarius, 48BC Ob: Pietas facing right, Rv: clasped hands around a caduceus, (advertising Caesars reconciliation policy.)
Wow that's interesting. I had no idea shaking hands was invented back then but I just looked it up. Shaking hands was invented in 5th century B.C. in Greece to show that neither person is carrying a weapon. You learn something new every day
Fantastic coin, Quite a general, certainly gave the Veneti trouble during the Gallic wars. The man who led Caesar to slaughter.
Count me peanut butter and jealous!!! I've no Brutus, but here's the man rumored to be his illegitimate father
William Holmes Sullivan 1888 "Et tu, Brute" Also, don't mix up Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, with Marcus Junius Brutus. Two seperate, but important Romans
..that's very true.. i was reading that...a 'not sure, but sure coulda been" kind o deal... ..thanks Antone...ya know that almost was the title of this thread, old friend...like minds.. (and i LOVE that painting!..i'd get a copy, but i'm running out o wall room))