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A Rare Coin Depicting Brutus, Caesar’s Infamous Assassin, Sells for $2 Million
Following the murder in 44 B.C.E., Brutus minted the gold aureus to promote his own image and celebrate his military ...
Global Coin Offers Rare Biblical-Era Coins: Judaea "Widow's Mite" and Three Wise Men Silver Drachm Available Now
Global Coin introduces two extraordinary ancient coins—the Judaea Biblical "Widow's Mite" Lepton and the Three Wise Men ...
Rare civil war siege coins sold for £9,800
Cut off, the inhabitants produced their own currency, originally known as obsidional (Latin for besieged) coins, but often ...
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Rare gold coin of Athens
A few more have turned up but it is still excessively rare. The cities of ancient Greece generally used silver for their ...
Ancient coin of Caesar’s backstabber, Brutus, expected to surpass $1 million at auction
A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius Caesar, is anticipated to ...
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A Coin Depicting Caesar’s Frenemy Brutus Smashes Estimate to Sell for $2 Million
The ancient gold coin of Brutus was the star coin in a trio of auctions held at the auction house Numismatica Genevensis SA.
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Rare Roman Coin Featuring Brutus Up For Auction In Geneva
"These are exceptionally rare coins and the possibility to acquire them is ... Certification by specialists, he said, is done by among other things comparing a coin with other ancient coins and by ...
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Ancient fireplaces, ‘phantom’ coins and more: See archaeological finds around the globe
Photo from Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea Off the coast of Sicily, Italy, anglers discovered an ancient shipwreck ... Kyoto found thousands of rare ceramic coins made during metal shortages ...