ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 B.C. AR denarius. 3.16 gm. 17 mm. Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. P. Servilius Casca Longus, moneyer. Laureate and bearded head of Neptune right; trident below; CASCA behind, LONGVS before / Victory advancing right on broken scepter, holding palm frond over shoulder and broken diadem bound with fillet; BRVTVS to left, IMP to right. CRI 212. Crawford 507/2. Sydenham 1298. RSC 3. Very Fine; nicely toned; light scattered corrosion/delamination. Of great rarity.

Publius Servilius Casca Longus was the first of the conspirators to actually plunge his dagger into Caesar on the Ides of March.