{"id":266,"date":"2008-03-15T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-03-15T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T04:05:00","slug":"266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/266\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Ides of March, 15 March 44 BC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The Ides of March denarius, struck by Brutus in 43\/2 BC, is easily the most famous of Roman Republican coins. It was famous in antiquity &#8212; one of the few coin types mentioned in an ancient author (Dio Cassius), and imitated a century after its issue to celebrate the murder of Nero.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/dept\/coins\/exhibitions\/CoinOfTheMoment\/Ides\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/dept\/coins\/exhibitions\/CoinOfTheMoment\/Ides\/images\/Ides_rev.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/dept\/coins\/exhibitions\/CoinOfTheMoment\/Ides\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/dept\/coins\/exhibitions\/CoinOfTheMoment\/Ides\/images\/Ides_obv.gif\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The reverse is the more striking face with the plain reference to Caesar&#8217;s assassination &#8212; the legend EID MAR with two daggers &#8211;, and the meaning of the assassination &#8212; the liberty cap, worn by slaves on the day of their manumission. The importance of the cap here derives from the Republican claim that Caesar was aiming at the kingship,&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;This example in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Hart collection) is one of finest known of this uncommon issue.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ides of March, 15 March 44 BC &#8220;The Ides of March denarius, struck by Brutus in 43\/2 BC, is easily the most famous of Roman Republican coins. It was famous in antiquity &#8212; one of the few coin types &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/266\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}