What? No EID MAR thread yet on 15 March?!

..haha!..when i hear/see that word ...cookieman comes to my mind ><

 

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The obligatory yearly thread! Nice to see the eid mar denarii again, can't get enough of them. Here are my contributions (no eid mar denarius obviously):

The victim:


the culprits:




the wannabe heir, but de facto dictator:


the real heir:


the result of all of this (the emperor, Augustus, founder of the principate)

 

Nice! Do you suppose Agatha Christie conceived the plot for Murder on the Orient Express based on Caesar's demise???...just sayin'...

 

The guy with the lean and hungry look, C. Cassius Longinus Ar Denarius Military mint possibly Smyrna Obv Head of Libertas right diademed RvSacrificial implements CRI 221 Crawford 500/3 3.57 grms 18 mm Photo by W. Hansen The eminence grise of the whole "liberator" movement the position of Cassius is something of an anomaly. By rights he was the more experienced commander and had better connections in the east than did Brutus but it is the later which has the lions share of the coinage. Of course this might have something to do with the fact that Brutus had leant money to some of the cities in the east charging something like 48% interest leading one modern historian to comment that Brutus was a man of high principal and even higher interest

 

Julius Caesar Ae Bithynia
BITHYNIA. Nicaea. Julius Caesar, as Dictator (49-44 BC). AE (25mm, 6.6 gm, 1h). C. Vibius Pansa, proconsul, dated Civic Year 236 (47/6 BC).
O: NIKAEΩN, bare head of Julius Caesar right
R: EΠI ΓAIOV / OVBIOV / ΠANΣA, Nike advancing right, palm frond in left hand over shoulder, wreath upward in right; monograms to lower left and inner right, ςΛΣ (date) in exergue. RPC I 2026. BMC 8-9.

This issue was one of only two Roman Provincials which have definitive lifetime portraits of Julius Caesar and was the first of them, the other from Lampsacus in 45 BC. Struck in Nicaea in Bithynia (present day northwestern Turkey), not far from where Caesar had just won a massive victory over the rebellious King Pharnaces II.

C. Vibius Pansa was part of the Caesarian faction at Rome and was friends with Caesar under whom he served in Gaul. He was elected Plebian Tribune in 51 BC and appointed governor of Bithynia et Pontus in 47 BC. He was the son of Caius Vibius C.f. C.n Pansa Caetronianus, who served as moneyer in Rome in 48 BC.

The first appearance of his portrait on coinage in Rome was on the denarii of M. Mettius, in January 44 BC. These coins served as a signal that his individual authority was becoming a threat to the sovereignty of the Republic.

 

Another, slightly different (almost believable) "EID MAR" copy
A more authentic J. Caesar

None too pretty, but this Caesar elephant & impedimentia denarius was actually found, encrusted, in a lot of uncleaneds, about 20 years ago

A dupondius in Æ

And Octavian's memorial posthumous sestertius (or maybe dupondius? no one's completely sure) for his deified, adoptive father, featuring the "Sidus Julium" in the obverse field - this is the accompanying piece to the large Æ with Octavian on one side, Julius on the other (there's one upthread) I recently upgraded my specimen and don't have it photographed yet

 

Well, thank you for the thought @ominus1 - good to see you also!

James

 

Better late than never.

 

I do like your “lettuce” salad post @octavius :

Quote:
Just finished making tonight's supper to commemorate the day...




James

 

Fantastic, Joe - I never tire of seeing that wonderful Eid Mar!


James

 

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LIBERATORS

CASSIUS


GAIUS CASSIUS LONGINUS & PUBLIUS CORNELIUS LENTULUS SPINTHER
Proconsul and Imperator
AR silver Denarius.
Struck circa 42 BC, at a mobile military mint moving with Brutus & Cassius, probably located in Smyrna.
C CASSI IMP LEIBERTAS, veiled & draped bust of Libertas right.
Rev: - LENTVLVS SPINT, jug & lituus.
18mm, 3.3g.
Craw 550-5, Sydenham 1305. Sear, Imperators 223. Cohen 6 (4 Fr.)
Ex: Incitis


BRUTUS


Roman Republic 54 BCE
AR Denarius, 18.3mm, 3.7g
Moneyer: Marcus Iunius Brutus (aka Quintus Servillius Caepio Brutus)
Obv: Bare hd of L. Iunius Brutus (Consul 509 BCE), Bearded r, BRVTVS behind
Rev: Bare hd of C. Servilius Ahala (Master of the Horse 439 BCE), bearded r, AHALA behind
Ref: Sear 398, Crawford 433/2,
from collection W. Esty CKXSUB 613

 

Amazing! My dream coin! (which proves to be out of reach time and time again)

 

Don’t give up hope, I felt the same way till this one came along!