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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4699595, member: 99456"]Limes, the coins of this period are all amazing artifacts, congratulations on your purchase! I am always pleased to have an excuse to share this coin from 54 BC, 10 years before the Ides of March. Brutus was not shy about his family history: tyrrannicides on both his mother's and father's side saved the republic from monarchy. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1154524[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Republican,</b> <b>M. Junius Brutus</b>, 54 BC.</p><p>AR Denarius, Rome, struck 54 BC</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Bearded and bare-headed head right of L. Junius Brutus; BRVTVS.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Bearded and bare-headed head right of Caius Servilius Ahala; AHALA</p><p><b>Size:</b> 3.96g, 17-19mm</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 433/2; Junia 30</p><p><br /></p><p>This coins links to founding of the Roman Republic. The obverse portrait of Lucius Junius Brutus, tells the story of the overthrowing of the monarchy in 509 BC. This Brutus of 509, nephew to Rome's seventh king, Tarquinius Superbus, and grandson to Rome's 5th king, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, led the revolt that banished the king and his family. He was then elected as one of the first two consuls of the new republic. M. Junius Brutus, in 54 BC claimed the earlier Brutus as his ancestor.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of this coin shows another ancestor of M. Junius Brutus, Gaius Servilius Structus Ahala, who in 439 murdered Spurius Maelius for plotting to make himself king. M. Junius Brutus, was the descendant of both of these heroes of the republic. A decade later, in 44 BC, he would be the leader of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. At the time, 54 BC, the coin was perhaps only a celebration of liberty, freedom from tyranny, the founding of the republic, and Brutus’ ancestors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4699595, member: 99456"]Limes, the coins of this period are all amazing artifacts, congratulations on your purchase! I am always pleased to have an excuse to share this coin from 54 BC, 10 years before the Ides of March. Brutus was not shy about his family history: tyrrannicides on both his mother's and father's side saved the republic from monarchy. [ATTACH=full]1154524[/ATTACH] [B]Roman Republican,[/B] [B]M. Junius Brutus[/B], 54 BC. AR Denarius, Rome, struck 54 BC [B]Obv:[/B] Bearded and bare-headed head right of L. Junius Brutus; BRVTVS. [B]Rev:[/B] Bearded and bare-headed head right of Caius Servilius Ahala; AHALA [B]Size:[/B] 3.96g, 17-19mm [B]Ref:[/B] Crawford 433/2; Junia 30 This coins links to founding of the Roman Republic. The obverse portrait of Lucius Junius Brutus, tells the story of the overthrowing of the monarchy in 509 BC. This Brutus of 509, nephew to Rome's seventh king, Tarquinius Superbus, and grandson to Rome's 5th king, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, led the revolt that banished the king and his family. He was then elected as one of the first two consuls of the new republic. M. Junius Brutus, in 54 BC claimed the earlier Brutus as his ancestor. The reverse of this coin shows another ancestor of M. Junius Brutus, Gaius Servilius Structus Ahala, who in 439 murdered Spurius Maelius for plotting to make himself king. M. Junius Brutus, was the descendant of both of these heroes of the republic. A decade later, in 44 BC, he would be the leader of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. At the time, 54 BC, the coin was perhaps only a celebration of liberty, freedom from tyranny, the founding of the republic, and Brutus’ ancestors.[/QUOTE]
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