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Coin Commemorating Assassination of Julius Caesar Leads Auction

One of the elite coins from the prestigious Hunt Collection, a coin considered the most historically important of all ancient coins, will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ CSNS World Coins Platinum and Signature® Auction May 3-5.

The Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar and Imperator (44-42 B.C.), with L. Plaetorius Cestianus, as Magistrate. AR denarius (19mm, 3.72 gm, 12h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style (estimate: $450,000+) is the only certified example ever to come to auction that has received a Fine Style designation from NGC.

“The significance of this coin is impossible to overstate,” says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of

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