In reply to lowersharpnose:
Nice choice! I usually post up a pikky of the silver denarius version on my birdy social media account each March 15th. It's a fab coin and the gold one is particularly beautiful. The hat between the daggers is a cap of liberty, usually associated with freedom from slavery, which tell us something about the way Caesar's dictatorship was perceived by those who assassinated him.
I was in Rome on a research grant back in 2000 and visited the Forum on the Ides of March; there was lots of stuff going on, readings and dramas based on ancient accounts of Caesar's assassination, of Antony's funeral speech from Shakespeare, flowers laid at the Temple of Caesar. Really interesting thinking about the 'reception' of Julius Caesar as tyrant and victim.
