BRUTUS SILVER DENARIUS – LIBERTAS TYPE WITH PROCESSION – NGC XF ROMAN IMPERATORIAL COIN (Inv. 21567)

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21567. ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. M. JUNIUS BRUTUS, d. 42 BC.
Silver Denarius, 4.07 g, 20 mm. Issue of Rome, struck by Brutus while he served as moneyer, 54 BC.
Obv. LIBERTAS, head of Libertas right. Rev. BRVTVS, procession of L. Junius Brutus, consul of 509 BC, and lictors.
Crawford 433/1; Sydenham 906.
NGC XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, “brushed.”

Although this coin was struck years before M. Junius Brutus made the fateful decision to become one of the liberators of Rome by striking down Julius Caesar in 44 BC, it is somewhat uncanny how the types advertise the motive behind one of the most famous murders in ancient history.