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Lucius Cassius Longinus
Lucius Cassius Longinus


Gens: Casia
Moneyer: Lucius Cassius Longinus
Date and mint: 78 BC - Rome


Obverse: Liber's head, right, with ivy crown and thyrsus on the shoulder. Dotted border.
Legend:

Reverse: Head of Libera, left, with vine crown. Dotted border.
Legend: L CASSI Q F

Comment: According to Babelon, the present denarius refers to the Aedes Cereris temple, which was located near the Circus Maximus and which was built by a member of the Cassia gens and was consecrated to Ceres, Liber or Bacoy Libera, this was the temple in which the decrees of the senate were kept so that citizens could have access to them.

Provenance: Numismatica Ars Classica (2021)
Price: 2,054
386/1
386/1
Image courtesy of: Numismatica Ars Classica

Other references

Crawford: 386/1
DR: 466
BMCRR (Grueber): Roma 3152
B (Babelon): Cassia 6
RSC (Seaby): Cassia 6
FFC (Fdez., Fdez., Calicó): 556
RC / RCV (D. Sear): 317
CRI (Sear Imperators) 49 - 27 BC:
CRR (Sydenham): 779
Cal (Calicó): 410
RBW: 1419
Other authors:

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