A rare coin minted by Marcus Junius Brutus after he helped assassinate Julius Caesar will go to auction next week. The gold coin — one of only 17 of its kind known to exist — dates to 43 or 42 ...

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...

Also in the hoard were 288 silver coins, all struck between 200 B.C. and A.D. 47. One depicts Julius Caesar, and there is also a rare example of a coin with Juba, king of Numidia (present-day Algeria) ...

The Romans were the best at using coins for propaganda. This coin of Julius Caesar features, on the obverse, Caesar at the height of his power with a legend naming him as "Dictator in Perpetuity ...

A few centuries later, Julius Caesar was the first Roman leader to have his portrait on a coin while he was still alive, one denarius minted just days before his murder in 44 B.C., the museum said.

Roman proconsul Julius Caesar conducts a series of military campaigns ... The Parisii minted this second-century B.C. gold coin. Photograph by Erich Lessing/Album Stung by Caesar’s affronts ...

This coin is internationally famous as a rare realistic ... She defeated Ptolemy with the help of Julius Caesar and became Caesar's mistress. She returned to Egypt after Caesar was assassinated ...

But Trump’s coin is nothing new. In a pre-social media world, coins were the ultimate propaganda tool. Rulers used them to advertise themselves and their achievements and any messaging they wanted to ...