“The greatest man that ever lived,” Alexander Hamilton once told Thomas Jefferson, “was Julius Caesar ... emperor's image captured in this mock portrait by eastern German artist Martin ...
A rare Roman coin featuring the portrait of Brutus, the assassin of statesman Julius Caesar, sold Monday at a Geneva auction for 1.98 million euros, according to organiser Numismatica Genevensis.
A rare coin minted by Marcus Junius Brutus after he helped assassinate Julius Caesar will go to auction ... before the Battle of Philippi and has a portrait of Brutus on the front.