A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius Caesar, is anticipated to sell for more than $1.1 million at an auction in Switzerland. The profile of ...
The gold coin, which dates from 42 B.C. and is valued at $4.2 million, is thought to have been looted from a field near where an army loyal to Brutus camped during the struggle for control of Rome. By ...
A rare Roman coin depicting Julius Caesar’s assassin, Brutus, sold for €1.9 million ($2 million) at a Geneva auction, far exceeding its €800,000 estimate. Coin specialists Numismatica Genevensis SA ...
An ancient Roman coin celebrating Julius Caesar’s death has set an auction record. Last Thursday, the ultra-rare gold coin, dating back more than 2,000 years, sold to an anonymous bidder for a ...
Famous ancient Stoic Porcia Cato was a woman of firm political convictions. She helped her husband Brutus see the plot to the very end. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Portia, shown here in an 1840 ...
A flip of the coin may hold our destiny. The Roman Empire lasted 500 years before it crumbled. If we are relying on power of weapons to carry us, then we have become shallower than imagined. At one ...
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