BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
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Remember all those Shakespeare lessons in high school? Julius Caesar was always one of those studied. What Shakespeare wrote was a fictional account about an event that actually happened in history. Not only did Brutus and Cassius kill Caesar in the Roman Forum on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.E., Brutus issued a coin bragging about it! The coin shows a Liberty Cap and two daggers above the date of the assassination. A bloody civil war resulted and Brutus was eventually killed. Et tu, Bruté!
This is probably the most historic coin in existence and less than one hundred coins in silver and two in gold are known.
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