Brutus - denarius - Sear 1431

Marcus Junius Brutus. Lentulus Spinther, moneyer.
Denarius, struck 42 BC. Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius, perhaps in Smyrna. 18 mm, 3,46 gr
Simpulum between sacrificial axe and knife, Jug and lituus, BRVTVS below /
Jug and lituus, LENTVLVS SPINT below
Sear 1431, Sear Imperators 198, Crawford 500/7.

This type shows BRTVTS, his cognomen. Sear concludes that perhaps this type is the earliest type struck in honour of the tyrannicide. Obverse and reverse show the symbols of the respective priestly colleges Brutus and Cornelius Lentulus Spinther belonged to respectively.

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