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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Abramthegreat, post: 25403762, member: 136180&quot;]Yesterday, while in Boston for my choir tour, (I&#039;ll get to preform in the Boston Symphony Hall tomorrow!) I visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where they have a wonderful collection of over 8,000 ancient coins (not all on display). Anyone else ever been? I have to say there were some pretty neat coins for sure. I like animals on coins, so I&#039;ll include a couple they had. Overall it was a great experience that I would recommend to anyone in the area.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1627137[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://jenniferbruni.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/octopus-coin-crop.jpg?w=358&amp;h=358" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://jenniferbruni.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bee-coin-crop.jpg?w=358&amp;h=358" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/migration-slide-image/EidMarCoin2%204x3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>From the MFA website:</b> &quot;This coin, known as the <i>Eid Mar</i> or <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12193529/The-Ides-of-March-The-assassination-of-Julius-Caesar-and-how-it-changed-the-world.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12193529/The-Ides-of-March-The-assassination-of-Julius-Caesar-and-how-it-changed-the-world.html" rel="nofollow">&quot;Ides of March,&quot;</a> is the most historically and politically significant in the MFA’s distinctive collection of more than 8,000 <a href="https://www.mfa.org/collections/search?f%5b0%5d=field_classifications:41846" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mfa.org/collections/search?f%5b0%5d=field_classifications:41846" rel="nofollow">coins</a>. The silver coin (called a <a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/denarius" rel="nofollow"><i>denarius</i></a> in Latin) commemorates the ultimate political act, the assassination of dictator Julius Caesar in 44 BC by Brutus and Cassius. Brutus’s portrait is emblazoned on the front of the coin with the name of L. Plaetorius Cestianus, the <a href="http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/acans/caesar/Intro_Moneyer.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/acans/caesar/Intro_Moneyer.htm" rel="nofollow">moneyer</a> (a position for young elites rising through civic office). On the back is a simple cap flanked by two daggers, one for each assassin. In the Roman Republic, during the ceremony of enfranchisement, a slave was given a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/pileus-hat" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/pileus-hat" rel="nofollow">pileus</a> (egg-shaped hat) to wear as a public sign of his freedom. The hat became a symbol of liberty and was used on coins minted under the magistracy of families that opposed dictators, like Caesar, and others who had earlier tried to consolidate power, like <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pompey-the-Great" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pompey-the-Great" rel="nofollow">Pompey</a> or <a href="http://www.ancient.eu/article/95/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ancient.eu/article/95/" rel="nofollow">the Gracchi</a>. The hat was later used by Roman emperors as a sign of their commitment to the freedom of their subjects.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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