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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2820474, member: 75525&quot;]A short update on my search for paperwork on this coin.... nutin so far. Also, posted the coin on my blog - </p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I found a link for the reference where Cassius Dio mentions the coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cassius was born in 155 AD and died in 235 AD. Dio published a Roman History (Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία, Historia Romana), in 80 books, after twenty-two years of research and labor. The books cover a period of approximately 1,400 years, beginning with the tales from Roman mythology of the arrival of the legendary Aeneas in Italy (c. 1200 BC) and the founding of Rome by his descendant Romulus (753 BC); as well as the historic events of the republican and imperial eras through 229 AD. - from Wikipedia</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman History by Cassius Dio; Book 47, Paragraph 25, line 3:</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Now as soon as Brutus learned of the attempt of Mark Antony and of the killing of Antony&#039;s brother, he feared that some other insurrection might take place in Macedonia during his absence, and immediately hastened to Europe. On the way he took charge of the territory which had belonged to Sadalus, who had died childless and had left it to the Romans,</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; and he also invaded the country of the Bessi, in the hope that he might at one and the same time punish them for the mischief they were doing and invest himself with the title and dignity of imperator, thinking that he should thus carry on his war against Caesar and Antony more easily. He accomplished both objects chiefly by the aid of a certain prince named Rhascyporis. And after going thence into Macedonia and making himself master of everything there, he withdrew again into Asia.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; In addition to these activities Brutus stamped upon the coins which were being minted his own likeness and a cap12 and two daggers, indicating by this and by the inscription that he and Cassius had liberated the fatherland.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note 12 - The cap of liberty, given to slaves at the time of their manumission. <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/47*.html#note12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/47*.html#note12" rel="nofollow">http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/47*.html#note12</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of pics I hope you think are better:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]662125[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]662126[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]662127[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]662128[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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