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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 4977596, member: 44357&quot;]Having just received one of my latest purchases (and after waiting for Roma to resolve their technical difficulties), I finally have a chance to post a thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m very happy to share my upgraded Eid Mar denarius. I was able to view it in London prior to all of the lockdowns which gave me enough comfort to place the bid but it was still a surprise upon receiving it: lot-viewing usually takes place beneath incandescent light bulbs rather than natural sunlight - it ended up looking like an entirely different coin in-hand in natural light (in a good way, fortunately!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was afraid I wouldn&#039;t be able to own another of the type (they&#039;re not particularly rare, just expensive) but the stars aligned and I&#039;m very happy to add this example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1196018[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The ANS posted a video this week which does a great job outlining the history and is well worth a watch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]UqBbnG-yZ3U[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the Ides of March, 44 BC, in the House of the Senate, Julius Caesar was murdered, dramatically changing the course of Western history.</p><p><br /></p><p>The “Eid Mar” denarius was minted by the assassin himself, Marcus Junius Brutus, to commemorate the date. It marked the final chapter of the Roman Republic, leading to its replacement by an empire which lasted for nearly 1500 years and whose influence and legacy shapes our world today. Had Caesar not been killed, the ramifications would have likely resulted in a dramatically different history of the modern world.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is the only Roman coin which mentions a specific date (EID MAR) and loudly proclaims that the tyrant Julius Caesar is dead and that the deed was done in the name of liberty, as Brutus considered his assassination of Caesar to be an act of patriotism.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was so remarkable that it became one of the few coin types to be mentioned by a contemporary historian. The ancient scholar Dio Cassius spoke of it in his History of Rome: “Brutus stamped upon the coins which were being minted his own likeness and a cap and two daggers, indicating by this and by the inscription that he and Cassius had liberated the fatherland.” (XLVII.25)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Post your favorite coins of Brutus, Cassius, and Julius Caesar</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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