Denarius - Brutus CASCA LONGVS / BRVTVS IMP

This denarius was struck in the mobile military mint traveling with Brutus during his campaign in Macedonia and Asia Minor — the same months he was assembling the republican forces that would meet Antony and Octavian at Philippi in 42 BC. The obverse type naming Casca Longus identifies Publius Servilius Casca, one of the primary conspirators in the Ides of March assassination, who served as a moneyer for Brutus during this period. It is a remarkable thing: a coin explicitly connecting two of Caesar's killers by name, issued in open defiance of the triumvirs.

Crawford dates the issue to 43–42 BC on stylistic and hoard evidence. Within two years of striking, both Brutus and Casca were dead — Casca's fate at Philippi remains unclear in the sources, but Brutus died by his own hand after the second battle.