Brutus' Coins

The Brutus coins are a kind of roman coins with a very special historical significance. In 2020 one such golden coin was sold on auction for a staggering amount. This is the story of those coins, their meaning and what they can teach us about roman history.
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[@teambridgebsc691]

Fascinating. Again, you take a great subject and present it in an entirely new way. Most refreshing.

[@ancient_history]

Thank you!

[@williamwulff289]

Wonderful video ! I have bien binging your channel all day. I really like your video on the Nile expédition and your video on the slave quartiers in Pompeii. Much love from Belgium

[@ancient_history]

Thank you Willam for you kind words! Thank you for watching!

[@redw0lf848]

Thanks for the great video, looking to add a Brvtvs coin to the collection

[@ancient_history]

Thank you!

[@henkstersmacro-world]

Great video on, what I consider, the most interesting period in Roman history!!

[@ancient_history]

Yes, this era is immensely interesting once you start to dig your self into it! It is of course fortunate that for this period ther a so many rich sources avaliable.

[@hplooi]

Second the motion. After reading and studying copious text on history as hagiography, biography, factual text, morality lessons etc etc (Gibbons et al) it is doubly refreshing to hear and see minutiae behind history.... it gives flesh to dry facts and provide contextual insights .... more details like this in small servings would be eagerly awaited....

[@sotony7483]

Very insightful.

[@ancient_history]

I am glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!

[@kelvyquayo]

The beards were usually grown to symbolize mourning. I wonder who they were mourning for in those coins? Possibly for Caesar himself. Romans were odd like that. Also could have been commemorating those who died in civil war..

[@ancient_history]

It is of course impossible to know today - but I think I touch the notion that it could relate to the death of the republic.

[@haveyouseenmikehunt7964]

Wouldn't mind finding that coin in my change jar ha None of the conspirators died a natural death that too is a very interesting story ☆

[@ancient_history]

Yes it is - I hope to return to the death of Caesar, and all its circumstances in a later episiode. Thank you for watching!

[@RP-mm9ie]

Wonderful

[@ancient_history]

Thank you!

[@jacktownsend3170]

Hi Marten, can you explain the “Imp”? Was he hypocritically making a bid to be emperor or did it have a solid Republican connotation prior to Augustus?

[@ancient_history]

Hi Jack. Great question! Traditionally, in republican times, it was a title that the troops bestowed on their commader if he had been outstandingly victorious. It was also a necessary "title" to gain to be allowed to request a triumph at the senate in Rome. If it was granted, after the triumph - the commander no longer had the right to use the title.

[@weilandiv8310]

The more I hear about this Brutus fella... the more I don't seem to care for him

[@NedFlanders612]

Yo same

[@j0nnyism]

I’m sure many more have been found in the past and turned into florins or some other gold currency

[@SmoshDella]

I have one but it's not gold.. i found it in Morocco

[@macscotsman51]

👍

[@davidfleming1115]

This was something Trump did when he was in the White House and while he was alive he had two coins one gold and silver struck of his imagine today those coins have very little value and he can't sell any of them at all

[@kelvyquayo]

🤤

[@chrisbrown8640]

True , but in another 50 years or so ...who knows ?