In 49 BC, Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon river into Italy, uttering “alea iacta est” (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war ...
Alas for history, little of Caesar’s work survives (see The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar). What we do have, however, is important, the fourteen “books” of war commentaries; ...
Numismatica Genevensis SA The gold coin was “cast not in Rome but in a mint that travelled with Brutus and his armies as he tried to seize power after the assassination of Julius Caesar ...
A rare Roman coin depicting Julius Caesar’s assassin, Brutus, sold for €1.9 million ($2 million) at a Geneva auction, far exceeding its €800,000 estimate. Coin specialists Numismatica ...