EID MAR appears on the reverse below the daggers to commemorate the assassination of Caesar during the Ides of March.

[citation needed] The minting of the coin may also be a political statement or propaganda commissioned by the assassins of Caesar.

[8][page needed] An interpretation of the coin's symbols is that the Roman state was liberated from slavery with the assassination of Caesar.

[6][12] The coin was returned to Greece in 2023 after it was determined to have been looted from a field near where Brutus' army was encamped.

The undisclosed buyer handed over the coin to American authorities and a British dealer was arrested on charges of grand larceny.