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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7837161, member: 98035&quot;]I have no idea why Brutus decided to mint coins in his own image (although, they are all rare compared to the ones with only his name).</p><p><br /></p><p>Pompey didn&#039;t mint coins with his image, save for *possibly* this one from Soloi-Pompeopolis (opinions are divided whether this is a lifetime or posthumous portrait, possibly as late as the Flavian era)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1347514[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Caesar&#039;s portrait coins made him enemies in the Senate, but the people loved it and wanted him to be in charge of everything forever. Once Brutus followed suit it opened the flood gate - Octavian, Antony, Lepidus, and then that Regulus guy who nobody seems to know what he did to deserve to be on coinage!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, FWIW, I believe that the trend of living rulers on coinage actually started in the provinces which had been kingdoms within living memory - For someone alive during Caesar&#039;s time, the final years of the Seleucid and Mithradaic kingdoms would have been only 20-30 years prior.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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