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République romaine - Brutus et L. Plaetorius Cestianus
Denier - atelier itinérant (43-42).
Magnifique patine médaillier - Un des plus beaux exemplaires connus.
Exemplaire de la collection Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-1799) léguée au British Museum et de la vente NFA XXV du 29 novembre 1990, N° 308 et de la vente Leu 57
du 25 mai 1993, N° 189 et de la vente NAC 63 du 17 mai 2012, N° 535.
Cet exemplaire publié dans : H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, vol. II, London 1910, p. 479, N° 66.
3.76g - Cr. 508/2 - Sear Imperators 214
Superbe – AU
This issue belongs to coinage struck by the Liberators in 43-42 BC, in either western Asia Minor or northern Greece (possibly Thasos - where the precious metal reserves were stored), in preparation for the campaign of Philippi which ended with the battle of October 42 BC, where Brutus and Carrius were defeated by Octavian and Mark Antony, after which Brutus took his own life. It has been suggested that the head is that of Ceres, protectress of the Roman grain supply (frumentarium), with a hat resembling a modius - as a reference to the (otherwise unknown) moneyer Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus being quaestor or proquaestor; but the draped and veiled female figure on the obverse might be Diana/Artemis according to M. Crawford because she wears a polos (a cylindrical crown - see V. K. Müller, The Polos, Berlin 1915, p. 89, and Karen Schoch, Die doppelte Aphrodite, Göttingen 2009, pp. 124-126). Interpreting the reverse seems more straightforward: the priestly emblems of the pontificate (already depicted on coins struck by P. Lentulus Spinther, a legate of Cassius), remind the public that Brutus belonged to Rome's most senior priesthood, membership of which he owed to Julius Caesar personally.
Denier - atelier itinérant (43-42).
Magnifique patine médaillier - Un des plus beaux exemplaires connus.
Exemplaire de la collection Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-1799) léguée au British Museum et de la vente NFA XXV du 29 novembre 1990, N° 308 et de la vente Leu 57
du 25 mai 1993, N° 189 et de la vente NAC 63 du 17 mai 2012, N° 535.
Cet exemplaire publié dans : H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, vol. II, London 1910, p. 479, N° 66.
3.76g - Cr. 508/2 - Sear Imperators 214
Superbe – AU
This issue belongs to coinage struck by the Liberators in 43-42 BC, in either western Asia Minor or northern Greece (possibly Thasos - where the precious metal reserves were stored), in preparation for the campaign of Philippi which ended with the battle of October 42 BC, where Brutus and Carrius were defeated by Octavian and Mark Antony, after which Brutus took his own life. It has been suggested that the head is that of Ceres, protectress of the Roman grain supply (frumentarium), with a hat resembling a modius - as a reference to the (otherwise unknown) moneyer Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus being quaestor or proquaestor; but the draped and veiled female figure on the obverse might be Diana/Artemis according to M. Crawford because she wears a polos (a cylindrical crown - see V. K. Müller, The Polos, Berlin 1915, p. 89, and Karen Schoch, Die doppelte Aphrodite, Göttingen 2009, pp. 124-126). Interpreting the reverse seems more straightforward: the priestly emblems of the pontificate (already depicted on coins struck by P. Lentulus Spinther, a legate of Cassius), remind the public that Brutus belonged to Rome's most senior priesthood, membership of which he owed to Julius Caesar personally.