大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 3月16日 00時21分

Beware the Ides of March! Julius Caesar was assassinated #onthisday in 44 BC. According to the ancient historian Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. This was later famously dramatised in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when a soothsayer warns Caesar to ‘beware the Ides of March.’
This coin was struck in honour of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar. The back of the coin shows the cap of liberty given to freed slaves flanked by two daggers. This indicates Brutus' intention of freeing Rome from Caesar's imperial ambitions and the murder weapons employed to do so. Below the cap is the day of the deed – EID.MAR, the Ides of March.
Few coins capture a moment in history with such stark and brutal imagery. Brutus had carried out the attack with some fellow Roman Senators in 44 BC when Caesar had come unarmed to address the Senate on 15 March. This day was known to the Romans as the ides, or the middle day of the month and was recognised on a new calendar system that Caesar himself had established just two years before.
The assassins, or 'freedom party' as they regarded themselves, fled Rome to Macedonia to raise an army. However, they were defeated by Caesar's allies led by Mark Antony and Octavian at the Battle of Philippi (42 BC). Brutus subsequently committed suicide.
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