Who says coins are dead?
. The gold coin is known as the “Eid Mar,” which translates to the “Ides of March” or March 15. That phrase is inscribed on one side of the coin along with a depiction of two daggers and the cap traditionally given to emancipated slaves . On the other side is a Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the assassination’s ringleaders and the person the auction house says is responsible for having the coin minted.
It’s one of just three that exists to this day and spent the previous decade on display at the British Museum. Another was“It’s priceless, but it still has a price tag,” the auction house’s managing director, Arturo Russo, told. “To have a coin that commemorates such a well-known event, such a famous event, an event that has changed completely the course of history is quite extraordinary.
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