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This iconic silver denarius was minted to celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC. The daggers represent those used to kill Caesar and the date of his assassination (‘EID MAR’).

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In Fazail-e-Durood Sharif, it is interpreted that the Supreme God Kabir exists in a physical form and resides on a throne in the eternal realm (Satlok).

Baakhabar Sant Rampal Ji

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made some minor edits to an ides post that has been really annoying me

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HAPPY IDES HERES THE COIN MADE THAT COMMEMORATED OUR FAVORITE STABBING

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you already know what time it is

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This iconic silver coin was minted to celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC.

The daggers represent those used to kill Caesar and the date of his assassination (‘EID MAR’) appears below.

The specimen is from the collection of The Hunterian.

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The Idea of March.

Brutus’s Perspective: A Poem

And there was blood on my hands.

Blood on my hands.

And I remember the patient smile he used when advising me on my studies,

Blood on my hands.

I was reading the story of my ancestor, slayer of kings, father of the republic,

Blood on my hands.

He killed his own kin to bring about our freedom, our republic,

Blood on my hands.

Now I have done this too.

He had kind eyes, everyone said,

And a penitence for clemency rivaled by no others.

I feel sick.

I remember my father’s funeral.

I feel sick.

His strong, calm presence,

He looked sad, but he did not waver,

The one solid thing left as my mother wailed and tore at her hair.

I feel sick.

He advised me when I was appointed to the senate,

Like a father might.

He advised me on my first campaign,

Like a father might.

Wrote me letters from the front,

Like a- I feel sick.

There’s blood on my hands.

“For the Republic! They all cry.

Look to me to see it done.

Look to my forefathers and follow the line through to me.

“Call upon someone else,” I beg silently,

Someone stronger,

Someone older.

I am just a boy, I want to protest,

Despite the years of trying to prove myself a man

Call upon someone else, I beg silently,

“For the Republic!” I scream.

There is blood on my hands.

I feel sick.

He looks at me.

It is a frenzy of hands and shoving and blood, but his eyes stay on me.

He says not a word.

He’s looking at me.

I feel sick.

There’s blood on my hands.

When it is done, he lies dead on the floor beneath Pompey’s statue.

His greatest advisory,

His oldest friend,

There is revelry and shouts of joy around me,

There is screaming in the forum.

They look to me to say something,

I wish they would look somewhere else.

The man lies dead and ruined at my feet,

The man who so often acted as my father.

There is blood on my hands.

I feel sick.

“For the Republic” I hear myself whisper,

Shouts and cheers erupt all around me.

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Very Rare Roman Gold Coin is Returned to Greece

A Very Rare Gold Coin, Minted by Brutus to Mark Caesar’s Death, Is Returned to Greece

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.

A rare and ancient gold coin that morbidly celebrates the stabbing death of Julius Caesar was returned this week to Greek officials by investigators in New York who had determined it was looted and fraudulently put up for sale at auction in 2020.

The coin, known as the “Eid Mar” and valued at $4.2 million, features the face of Marcus Junius Brutus, the onetime friend and ally of Caesar who, along with other Roman senators, murdered him on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. According to historians and experts, Brutus had the coins minted in gold and silver to applaud Caesar’s downfall and to pay his soldiers during the civil war that followed the killing.

The return Tuesday came at a ceremony attended by officials of the Manhattan district attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, who cooperated on the case.

The coin, one of 29 artifacts returned to Greek officials, was given up earlier this year by an unidentified American billionaire who, investigators said, had bought it in good faith in 2020. The British dealer who helped to arrange the sale was arrested in January, and the coin itself was recovered in February, officials said.

Experts said the coin, minted two years after Caesar’s death, is about the size of a nickel and weighs about 8 grams, and is one of only three known to be in circulation. A silver version of the coin was also minted and about 100 are known to exist. Those can sell for $200,000 to $400,000.

“The Eid Mar is an undisputed masterpiece of ancient coinage,” Mark Salzberg, the chairman of Numismatic Guaranty Corp., which verified the coin but does not research provenances, said in a statement in 2020.

Experts said they believe the coin was likely discovered more than a decade ago in an area of current-day Greece where Brutus and his civil war ally, Gaius Cassius Longinus, were encamped with their army.

The front, or obverse, of the coin features an engraved side view of Brutus and the Latin letters “BRVT IMP” and “L PLAET CEST.” Experts say the former stands for “Brutus, Imperator,” with imperator referring not to emperor but to commander. The latter stands for Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus, who was a treasurer of sorts for Brutus and oversaw the minting and assaying of his coins.

The reverse features two daggers on either side of a cap known as a pileus. The daggers stand for Brutus and Cassius and reflect the manner of Caesar’s death, experts say, while the cap is a symbol of liberty that was worn by freed slaves. Overall, the image is meant to celebrate the murder as an act by which Rome was liberated from Caesar’s tyranny. Beneath the symbols is the Latin inscription “EID MAR,” designating the Ides of March — March 15, 44 B.C. — the fateful day on which the conspirators left Caesar dead on the floor of the Roman Senate.

Historians see irony in the fact that Brutus, who had admonished Caesar before the murder for the self-aggrandizing act of putting his face on Roman coinage, wound up doing the same with his own coins.

Ultimately, the forces who favored the dead Caesar, led by Mark Antony and others, defeated Brutus and his men in October of 42 B.C. at the Second Battle of Philippi, and Brutus and Cassius committed suicide.

According to investigators, the coin is first thought to have come to market between 2013 and 2014. Richard Beale, 38, director of the London-based auction house Roma Numismatics, put it up for sale on his company’s website and over several years shopped it at coin shows in the United States and Europe before it was sold in October 2020. The $4.2 million was the most ever paid for an ancient coin, according to the Numismatic Guaranty Corp.

Mr. Beale is charged with grand larceny in the first degree and several other felonies and was released on his own recognizance. His lawyer, Henry E. Mazurek, declined to comment on the case.

Among the other Greek antiquities repatriated on Tuesday were figurines of people and animals; marble, silver, bronze and clay vessels; and gold and bronze jewelry. Their total value was put at $20 million.

In remarks at the ceremony, Konstantinos Konstantinou, Greece’s consul general in New York, said his country has been hit hard by the illicit trading of antiquities and is seeking their return “in every possible way.”

He praised investigators for “striking down the illegal international criminal networks whose activity distorts the identity of peoples, as it cuts off archaeological finds from their context and transforms them from evidence of people’s history into mere works of art.”

By Tom Mashberg.