1000 Tögrög Caesar vs. Brutus

Mongolia has issued commemorative silver for decades under the Mongol Bank program, routinely licensing Western historical and pop-cultural subjects with little administrative friction — which explains how a landlocked Central Asian nation became one of the more prolific issuers of ancient Roman-themed coinage. This piece addresses one of antiquity's most documented political ruptures: the Ides of March conspiracy of 44 BC, in which Caesar's former ally Brutus led a senatorial faction of some twenty-three men.

Brutus issued his own coinage after the assassination — the famous "EID MAR" denarius, struck in 43–42 BC, is among the most historically charged coins of the ancient world. That precedent gives this modern issue an odd recursive quality.