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L. Cassius Longinus AR Denarius. Rome, 63 BC. Veiled and diademed head of Vesta to left; kylix behind, retrograde S before / Voter standing to left, dropping tablet marked [V] into cista; LONGIN•III• V downwards behind. Crawford 413/1; BMCRR Rome 3936; RSC Cassia 10. 3.86g, 20mm, 8h.
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The moneyer's grandfather, L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla, was a respected judge who presided over the re-trial of three Vestal Virgins who, in 113 BC, were accused of being unchaste. Having first been acquitted by the pontifices, Ravilla found them guilty, and condemned and put to death two of them. This obverse type marks 50 years since those events had unfolded, while the reverse type notes how, as a tribune of the plebs in 137 BC, Ravilla had successfully proposed in the Concilium Plebis the lex Cassia tabellaria, which was a measure to change the voting system to one of secret ballot.
Good Very Fine.
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
The moneyer's grandfather, L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla, was a respected judge who presided over the re-trial of three Vestal Virgins who, in 113 BC, were accused of being unchaste. Having first been acquitted by the pontifices, Ravilla found them guilty, and condemned and put to death two of them. This obverse type marks 50 years since those events had unfolded, while the reverse type notes how, as a tribune of the plebs in 137 BC, Ravilla had successfully proposed in the Concilium Plebis the lex Cassia tabellaria, which was a measure to change the voting system to one of secret ballot.