Lot 3495

Description

Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius Brutus), (54 B.C.), silver denarius, (3.66 grams), obv. bare head of L. Junius Brutus to right, BRVTV[S] behind, rev. bare head of C. Servilius Ahala to right, AHALA behind, (S.398, Cr.433/2, Syd 907, RSC Junia 30). Lightly toned, struck slightly off centre, otherwise good very fine with superb portraits, scarce.

Ex Spink & Son with ticket. The young moneyer Brutus issued this coin in commemoration of his illustrious family. C. Servilius Ahala murdered Spurius Maelius in 439 B.C. alleging that he was an enemy of the state. Brutus would go on to be the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.