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ID:     851843
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Roman Republican
Issuer:     Pedanius Costa and M. Junius Brutus
Date Ruled:     Late summer-autumn 42 BC
Metal:     Silver
Denomination:     Denarius
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     BC Late summer-autumn 42
Diameter:     17 mm
Weight:     3.88 g
Die Axis:     12 h
Obverse Legend:     LEG - COSTA
Obverse Description:     Laureate head of Apollo right; LEG to left, COSTA to right
Reverse Legend:     IMP BRVTVS
Reverse Description:     Trophy composed of cuirass, crested helmet, oval shield with incurved sides, and two crossed spears; IMP to left, BRVTVS to right
Mint:     Military
Primary Reference:     Crawford 506/2
Reference2:     RSC 4
Reference3:     Sydenham 1296
Reference4:     Kestner 3775-6; BMCRR East 59-61; CRI 209
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=148807
Grade:     Superb EF, lustrous, trace of deposits on reverse.
Notes:     Brutus is best known for his role in the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. This action, while often thought as an attempt to save liberty and justice, was actually meant to try to preserve aristocracy and privilege. Brutus and the other conspirators wanted to restore power to the Senate, comprised of the wealthiest and most powerful of Roman citizens. This is in contract to Julius Caesar, who had wanted to break the old power holds in the Senate, populating it with men of lower rank and birth. In a way, Julius Caesar could be seen as promoting a dictatorship with some flavor of a democracy, whereas Brutus and the other conspirators were attempting to save aristocracy.After his assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius occupied Rome, but had to flee when a funeral oration delivered by Caesar’s protege, Marc Antony, turned public opinion against them. Brutus and Cassius went their seperate ways, but met again in early 42 BC in Smyrna, Ionia, where they began preperations for the inevitable conflict that would ensue between them and Marc Antony and Octavian, Caesar’s grandnephew. They began using their armies to conquer cities, for which this series of coins was undoubtedly issued. The title IMP on the reverse show that Brutus still styled himself the savior of the Republic, as that was a title only the Senate can award.