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Denarius Junia: Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, A•POSTVMIVS•COS / ALBINVS•BRVTI•F
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 48 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | A•POSTVMIVS•COS (Translation: The Consul Aulus Postumius) |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus — not to be confused with his more famous adoptive kinsman Marcus — was among the conspirators who delivered the fatal blows to Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC, yet this coin predates that event by six years. The moneyer here references his descent from the consul Aulus Postumius Albinus, a genealogical claim common among late Republican moneyers competing for aristocratic credibility.
Decimus would later be abandoned by his own troops in 43 BC and executed on Antony's orders while attempting to reach Brutus in Macedonia.