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Denarius - Brutus LIBERTAS / CAEPIO•BRVTVS•PRO•COS
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 43 BC - 42 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | CAEPIO•BRVTVS•PRO•COS (Translation: Caepio Brutus Pro Consul (Proconsul Caepio Brutus)) |
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Struck by Brutus while commanding forces in Macedonia and Greece in the months following Caesar's assassination, this issue explicitly invoked Libertas — the personified freedom from tyranny — as the ideological justification for the Ides of March. The moneyer named in the legend, Q. Servilius Caepio Brutus, was the adoptive name Brutus carried from his maternal uncle; he rarely used it, which makes its appearance here a deliberate assertion of legitimacy and dynastic connection.
Brutus died at Philippi in October 42 BC. The entire series was produced and circulated within roughly a two-year window, struck to pay troops who would not survive the campaign.