PILLEUS: CAP OF LIBERTY

 
 
This is a coin issued by M. Junius Brutus.  The two daggers symbolize the assassination of Julius Caesar (one for Brutus and one for Cassius?).  Between the daggers is the pilleus, a symbol of the liberty that Brutus claims he brought to Rome by assassinating Caesar.  The inscription is an abbreviation for Eidibus (i.e., Idibus: ei for long i) Martiis, "on the Ides of March," the date on which the assassination took place in 44 BC.
 

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