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Davissons, Ltd. > Auction 45Auction date: 25 March 2026
Lot number: 181

Price realized: 700 USD   (Approx. 605 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:




ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. Brutus. Spring-early summer 42 B.C. AR quinarius. 1.49 gm. 14 mm. Military mint traveling with Brutus in southwestern Asia Minor. L Sestius, proquaestor. Quaestorial chair, against which rests staff; modius below; L SESTI PRO Q / Tripod; simpulum to left, apex to right; Q CAEPIO BRVTVS PRO COS. CRI 203. Crawford 502/4. Sydenham 1292. RSC 13. RBW 1770. Near Extremely Fine; attractively toned; light porosity. Very rare.

Ex Pegasi Auction 24 (5 May 2011) lot 422.

Brutus was an idealistic, ardent republican and perhaps the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BC. This rare and interesting type highlights the traditional republican institutions of religion and the state.

Estimate: 750 USD