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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 4994993, member: 44357&quot;]Thanks, and, that&#039;s a beautiful example of the type! Yes, Brutus minting coins in his own image after Julius Caesar&#039;s controversial portrait coinage is very hypocritical and in stark contrast to Cassius&#039; coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>CNG wrote a nice blurb on this topic recently:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Senate&#039;s resolution to declare him a &#039;public enemy&#039; on 28 November 44 BC was soon repealed and in February 43 BC, he was appointed governor of Crete, the Balkan provinces, and later Asia. Suspecting the intentions of Antony and Octavian, Brutus went to Macedonia and won the loyalty of its governor, Hortensius, and there levied an army and seized much of the funds prepared by Caesar for his Parthian expedition. </p><p><br /></p><p>Successful against the Bessi in Thrace, he was hailed imperator by his troops, but after the establishment of the triumvirate in November 43 BC, he was outlawed again and joined forces with Cassius at Sardes. In the summer of 42 BC, they marched through Macedonia and in October met Octavian on the Via Egnatia just outside Philippi and won the first battle. Cassius, as his conservative coins show, remained true to the old republican cause, while Brutus followed the self-advertising line of Antony in the new age of unashamed political propaganda and struck coins displaying his own portrait. </p><p><br /></p><p>Brutus&#039; estrangement from Cassius was effectively complete when this remarkably assertive coin was struck extolling the pileus or cap of liberty (symbol of the Dioscuri, saviors of Rome, and traditionally given to slaves who had received their freedom) between the daggers that executed Caesar. In an ironic twist of fate, Brutus committed suicide during the second battle at Philippi on 23 October 42 BC, using the dagger with which he assassinated Caesar.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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