Ides of March coin

Silver denarius of Marcus Junius Brutus, struck about 43 to 42 BC. Here is a coin that brags about an assassination. The reverse, on the right, shows the pileus, the cap given to freed slaves, between two daggers, with EID MAR below for the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC. The obverse, on the left, carries Brutus's own portrait, naming him as imperator beside the moneyer Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus. Silver examples are rare, and only three of the gold version are known. This crisp example is in the British Museum.