2024-03-15 Fri

Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome on March 15th 44 BCE, He was stabbed to death by Brutus and Cassius who were threatened by the thought of him gaining absolute power by bringing Monarchy.

The obverse has a portrait of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Caesar’s assassins, and the other side dramatically has 2 daggers and the words EID MAR, a Latin abbreviation for Ides of March- the day he was killed