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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3071416, member: 51347&quot;]I collect Ancients.&nbsp; I enjoy coins that have been circulated as they have been used for their original intent:&nbsp; commerce.&nbsp; These have been touched by folks during the time history was being made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I consider &quot;Moderns&quot; after AD 200.&nbsp; </p><p>This one was minted within two weeks of Julius Caesar being assassinated:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]771853[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Republic / Imperatorial</b></p><p><b>Julius Caesar</b></p><p>P. Sepullius Macer. Moneyer</p><p>AR (Silver) Denarius Jan. - March 44 BCE, </p><p>19mm. 4.1 g</p><p>Obv: CAESAR – DICT PERPETVO Veiled and wreathed head of Caesar r. </p><p>Rev: P·SEPVLLIVS – MACER Venus standing l., holding Victory and sceptre resting on star. </p><p>Ref: B. Julia 50 and Sepullia 5. C. 39. Sydenham 1074a. Sear Imperators 107e. Crawford, 480/14.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>FORUM COINS:</b></p><p><b>&quot;The coin that killed&quot; </b>Caesar The obverse legend declares Caesar is &quot;Dictator for Life&quot; (DICT PERPETVO) and he wears the veil, symbolic of his life-term position as Pontifex Maximus. Caesar would be both the dictator and high priest of Rome for the remainder of his life, but his life would end only a few weeks after this coin was struck. For Caesar to put his image on coins and in effect declare himself king was too much for Brutus and his republican allies. On the Ides of March (15 March) 44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed to death by as many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theater of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, &quot;The ides of March have come,&quot; meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied &quot;Aye, Caesar; but not gone.&quot; This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare&#039;s play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to &quot;beware the Ides of March.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Minted for Caesar&#039;s planned Parthian war, this type was often carelessly struck indicating the mint was working under great pressure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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