Mongolia has issued commemorative silver for decades under the Mongol Bank program, routinely licensing Western historical and pop-cultural subjects with little administrative friction — which explains how a landlocked Central Asian nation became one of the more prolific issuers of ancient Roman-themed coinage. This piece addresses one of antiquity's most documented political ruptures: the Ides of March conspiracy of 44 BC, in which Caesar's former ally Brutus led a senatorial faction of some twenty-three men.
Brutus issued his own coinage after the assassination — the famous "EID MAR" denarius, struck in 43–42 BC, is among the most historically charged coins of the ancient world. That precedent gives this modern issue an odd recursive quality.
Mongolia has issued commemorative silver for decades under the Mongol Bank program, routinely licensing Western historical and pop-cultural subjects with little administrative friction — which explains how a landlocked Central Asian nation became one of the more prolific issuers of ancient Roman-themed coinage. This piece addresses one of antiquity's most documented political ruptures: the Ides of March conspiracy of 44 BC, in which Caesar's former ally Brutus led a senatorial faction of some twenty-three men.
Brutus issued his own coinage after the assassination — the famous "EID MAR" denarius, struck in 43–42 BC, is among the most historically charged coins of the ancient world. That precedent gives this modern issue an odd recursive quality.