Each die pair could mint roughly 10,000 to 20,000 coins, so hundreds of thousands were probably made. A previously unrecorded example of an ancient Ides of March gold coin commemorating the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 BC has been confirmed by rare coin authenticators in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic. As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. The first part of the play leads to his death the second portrays the consequences. There were more than 25 different reverse "tails" dies that were used to create the silver EID MAR coin. Synopsis: Caesar’s assassination is just the halfway point of Julius Caesar. A fictionally youthful portrait of Augustus is paired with a butting bull. Despite the occasional, overly-serious numismatist admonishing the newer hobbyist in playing this down in favor of just learning and studying the coins the truth is that it is an integral part of the fun of collecting. 14) Gold aureus struck at Lugdunum, c.1512 B.C. Almost every coin collector is interested, if not obsessed, with the worth of their coins. It bears the portraits of Octavian (later known as Augustus) and his adoptive father, the slain dictator Julius Caesar. Many different types of coins were issued under Caesar's authority. Summary: An ancient gold coin described as a naked and shameless celebration of the assassination of Julius Caesar, featuring a portrait of one of the men who killed him, has set a new record for a coin sold at auction. Imperatorial coinage spread political propaganda, beginning with Julius Caesar’s brief dictatorship from 49 to 44 BC, and the first large-scale use of lifetime portraits on Roman coins. While Brutus seems to be claiming to have freed the Romans from Caesar as king, he also hypocritically "promotes himself and his own image on the other side of the coin using the same sort of self-fashion as Caesar, the would-be autocrat," Yarrow said. Gold aureus struck at a military mint, c.43 B.C. An ultra-rare coin celebrating Julius Caesar’s assassination sells for a record 3.5 million. This, coupled with Caesar's declaration of himself as dictator in perpetuity, directly led to his assassination. While previous moneyers had issued coins. It was worth 25 denarii, and first appeared during the reign of Julius Caesar. "Traditionally, heads were reserved for gods and kings," she said. A significant advancement in coin imagery occurred when Julius Caesar issued coins bearing his own portrait. "Prior to Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, no living Roman had ever put his own portrait on a Roman coin," Liv Yarrow, a history professor at Brooklyn College in New York who is an expert on coins of the Roman Republic, told Live Science.
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