The coin was imitated in Renaissance Italy. A few years later, Octavian (Augustus) would succeed in using both kinds of self-advertisement to create the Principate, marking the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire. Therefore, on one side of the coin Brutus claims to have liberated the fatherland and saved the Republic, but on the other side he presents himself as a general in the style of Julius Caesar. The chilling legend underneath reads EID(ibus) MAR(tiis)(Ides of March). The reverse shows the cap of liberty ( pileus), which was traditionally given to slaves on manumission, between two daggers. The obverse of the coin presents a bareheaded Brutus, with the legend “Brutus, Imperator, Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus (moneyer).” Republican coins did not display portraits of living men, but on this denarius Brutus included his own effigy and his title of Imperator, more in line with the coins of Julius Caesar, the man he had killed for supposedly wanting to be king. ![]() Soon after, at the second Battle of Philippi, Brutus and his fellow conspirators were defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian, and he committed suicide. It was minted by Marcus Iunius Brutus in northern Greece during the late summer of 42 BC, for he had fled Rome after the assassination. ![]() This famous silver denarius celebrates the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. A Roman denarius and Renaissance medallion showing a pileus and daggers
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