| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61395 | Auction date: 4 August 2024 |
| Lot number: 22349 Price realized: 400 USD (Approx. 371 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus, Assassin of Caesar, as Imperator (44-42 BC), with Pedanius Costa, as Legate. AR denarius (18mm, 3.66 gm, 11h). NGC Fine 4/5 - 2/5, bent, punch marks, brushed. Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in Western Asia Minor or Northern Greece, ca. late summer-autumn 42 BC. LEG-COSTA, laureate head of Apollo right, hair in parallel waves atop head and falling in two long tendrils down neck; spike border / BRVTVS-IMP, military trophy consisting of helmet, cuirass, oval shield with curved sides and two crossed spears mounted on pole; dotted border. Crawford 506/2. Sydenham 1296. Ex Numismatik Naumann, Auction 122 (6 November 2022), lot 633. Marcus Junius Brutus was a blue-blooded Roman who had attained a fortune by lending money at exorbitant interest rates when he was suborned into the conspiracy against his former benefactor, Julius Caesar. As his distant ancestor had entered history as a great tyrannicide, Brutus soon became the de-facto leader and spokesmen for the assassins. After the Ides of March, Brutus induced a cowed senate to give him a governorship in northern Greece and promptly departed to raise money and arms for the brewing civil war against Caesar's adherents. He cut a brutal swath through Greece, Thrace, and Asia Minor, looting city treasuries and enforcing horrendous taxes at the point of a sword. He turned his ill-gotten gains into silver denarii to pay his growing army and navy, including this type. Brutus and his companions were soon maneuvered into battle against the Caesarians at Philippi in Greece, where Marc Antony proved to be much the better general. Brutus took his own life with the very dagger he had plunged into Caesar, earning this unattractive character the reputation as a martyr for the cause of liberty. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-assassin-of-caesar-as-imperator-44-42-bc-with-pedanius-costa-as/a/61395-22349.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61395-08042024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61395 | Auction date: 4 August 2024 |
| Lot number: 22337 Price realized: 550 USD (Approx. 510 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus, Assassin of Caesar, as Imperator (44-42 BC), with Pedanius Costa, as Legate. AR denarius (18mm, 3.61 gm, 11h) NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 2/5, scuffs, bankers mark, edge chip. Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in Western Asia Minor or Northern Greece, ca. late summer-autumn 42 BC. LEG-COSTA, laureate head of Apollo right, hair in parallel waves atop head and falling in two long tendrils down neck; spike border / BRVTVS-IMP, military trophy consisting of helmet, cuirass, oval shield with curved sides and two crossed spears mounted on pole; dotted border. Crawford 506/2. Sydenham 1296. Marcus Junius Brutus was a blue-blooded Roman who had attained a fortune by lending money at exorbitant interest rates when he was suborned into the conspiracy against his former benefactor, Julius Caesar. As his distant ancestor had entered history as a great tyrannicide, Brutus soon became the de-facto leader and spokesmen for the assassins. After the Ides of March, Brutus induced a cowed senate to give him a governorship in northern Greece and promptly departed to raise money and arms for the brewing civil war against Caesar's adherents. He cut a brutal swath through Greece, Thrace, and Asia Minor, looting city treasuries and enforcing horrendous taxes at the point of a sword. He turned his ill-gotten gains into silver denarii to pay his growing army and navy, including this type. Brutus and his companions were soon maneuvered into battle against the Caesarians at Philippi in Greece, where Marc Antony proved to be much the better general. Brutus took his own life with the very dagger he had plunged into Caesar, earning this unattractive character the reputation as a martyr for the cause of liberty. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-assassin-of-caesar-as-imperator-44-42-bc-with-pedanius-costa-as/a/61395-22337.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61395-08042024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
Match 2:
| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61395 | Auction date: 4 August 2024 |
| Lot number: 22348 Price realized: 480 USD (Approx. 445 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus, Assassin of Caesar, as Proconsul (44-42 BC), with L. Sestius, as Proquaestor. AR denarius (17mm, 3.55 gm, 12h). NGC Choice Fine 4/5 - 3/5, punch mark. Military mint travelling with Brutus and Cassius in southwestern Asia Minor, ca. 42 BC. L•SESTI•PRO•-Q, veiled, draped bust of Libertas right, seen from front, wearing necklace / Q•CAEPIO•BRVTVS•PRO C-OS, tripod lebes with leonine feet; securis left on left, culullus right on right. Crawford 502/2 (43-42 BC). Sydenham 1290. Junia 37 and Sestia 2. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-assassin-of-caesar-as-proconsul-44-42-bc-with-l-sestius-as-pro/a/61395-22348.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61395-08042024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
Match 3:
| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61395 | Auction date: 4 August 2024 |
| Lot number: 22330 Price realized: 600 USD (Approx. 556 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus, Assassin of Caesar, as Proconsul (44-42 BC). AR denarius (20mm, 3.98 gm, 3h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 4/5. Military mint traveling with Brutus in Lycia, spring-early summer 42 BC. LEIBERTAS, bare head of Libertas right, with hair waved and rolled into chignon at back of head / CAEPIO•BRVTVS•PRO•COS, plectrum, lyre, and laurel branch tied with fillet. Crawford 501/1. Sydenham 1287. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-assassin-of-caesar-as-proconsul-44-42-bc-ar-denarius-20mm-398/a/61395-22330.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61395-08042024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61395 | Auction date: 4 August 2024 |
| Lot number: 22199 Price realized: 420 USD (Approx. 389 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients P. Fonteius P.f. Capito, as Triumvir (ca. 55 BC), with Titus Didius, as Imperator. AR denarius (18mm, 4.10 gm, 5h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5. Rome. P•FONTEIVS•CAPITO•III•VIR•CONCORDIA, diademed, veiled head of Concordia right / T•DIDI•-IMP•-VIL•PVB, façade of the Villa Publica on the Campus Martius, a building with two floors, the lower with an arcade of four archways, the upper a colonnade of five columns supporting a tiled roof. Crawford 429/2. Sydenham 901. Fonteia 18 and Didia 1. Ex Baldwin's, private sale with old dealer's tag included. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-p-fonteius-pf-capito-as-triumvir-ca-55-bc-with-titus-didius-as-imperator-ar-denarius-18mm-410-g/a/61395-22199.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61395-08042024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61395 | Auction date: 4 August 2024 |
| Lot number: 22203 Price realized: 80 USD (Approx. 74 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients P. Fonteius P.f. Capito, as Triumvir (ca. 55 BC), with Titus Didius, as Imperator. AR denarius (18mm, 3.84 gm, 10h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 3/5, edge cut. Rome. P•FONTEIVS•P•F-CAPITO•III•VIR, helmeted, draped bust of Mars right, seen from front, trophy over shoulder / MN•-FONT•TR•-MIL (MN and NT ligate), horseman jumping right, preparing to thrust vertical spear with right hand at enemy soldier below about to run sword through disarmed opponent, helmet and shield in lower right field. Crawford 429/1. Sydenham 900. RSC Fonteia 17. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-p-fonteius-pf-capito-as-triumvir-ca-55-bc-with-titus-didius-as-imperator-ar-denarius-18mm-384-g/a/61395-22203.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61395-08042024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
