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17 December 2023
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The Leader of Caesar's Assassins

Starting Price: 500 CHF
Hammer Price:  1600 CHF
Lot 634

Brutus, early 42 BC. Denarius (Silver, 20.5 mm, 3.84 g, 6 h), military mint travelling with Brutus, probably at Smyrna; struck under the legate P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther. BRVTVS Axe, simpulum and knife. Rev. LENTVLVS / SPINT Jug and lituus. Crawford 500/7. CRI 198. RBW 1766. Sydenham 1310. Slight die shift, otherwise, very fine.

Ex Obolos 17, 20 December 2020, 619.

This coin of Marcus Junius Brutus, leader of Caesar's assassins, depicts the tools of the Pontificate on the obverse, including the securis victima (sacrificial axe), simpulum (dipper for libations), and secespita (sacrificial knife). The reverse depicts tools of the Augurate: The capis (ritual bowl for entrails) and the lituus (augur's wand, used to divide the sky into quadrants for studying the flight of birds).

Online bidding closes: 17 Dec 2023, 19:17:00 CET Current Date & Time: 28 Apr 2024, 01:40:28 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:1600 CHF by MailBidder8039 (9 bids)
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