Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XX 29-30 Oct 2020
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Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus AR Denarius. Military mint travelling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece, late summer-autumn 42 BC. L. Plaetorius Cestianus, moneyer. Laureate, veiled and draped female bust right, wearing polos on top of head; L•PLAET•CEST behind / Sacrificial axe and simpulum; BRVT•IMP below. Crawford 508/2; CRI 214; BMCRR East 66-67; RSC 2. 3.82g, 19mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine; minor marks on rev. Rare.
From the Long Valley River Collection;
Acquired from Nomos AG.
This type, no less rare in fact than the famed EID MAR denarius bearing the portrait of Brutus, was also struck in the last days or weeks before the fateful and titanic clash of armies and ideologies at the Battle of Philippi on 3 and 23 October 42 BC. Despite being outshone in demand by the aforementioned most iconic of Roman coins, this beautiful and simple type is an excellent example of what may be accurately described as the final issue of Republican coins in the truest sense, before the Roman world passed forever from the hands of the Senate and People and into those of autocrats.
Extremely Fine; minor marks on rev. Rare.
From the Long Valley River Collection;
Acquired from Nomos AG.
This type, no less rare in fact than the famed EID MAR denarius bearing the portrait of Brutus, was also struck in the last days or weeks before the fateful and titanic clash of armies and ideologies at the Battle of Philippi on 3 and 23 October 42 BC. Despite being outshone in demand by the aforementioned most iconic of Roman coins, this beautiful and simple type is an excellent example of what may be accurately described as the final issue of Republican coins in the truest sense, before the Roman world passed forever from the hands of the Senate and People and into those of autocrats.