The Consul L. Junius Brutus

237, Lot: 327. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus. 54 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.90 g, 10h). Rome mint. Head of Libertas right / The consul L. Junius Brutus walking left between two lictors preceded by an accensus. Crawford 433/1; Sydenham 906; Junia 31. VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse, small test cut on edge.

From the Collection of Professor L. Fontana.

The design of this coin, issued by Brutus, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar, alludes to one of his famous relatives and an important time in the early history of Rome. L. Junius Brutus, viewed as the creator of the republic, expelled the Tarquins and their king from Rome while consul in 509 BC, thereby establishing the Roman Republic.