196, Lot: 245. Estimate $500. Sold for $512. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Cassius Longinus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.34 g, 6h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna. P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legate. Diademed head of Libertas right / Jug and lituus. Crawford 500/3; CRI 221; Sydenham 1307; RSC 16. Good VF, ragged flan, probably as made, reverse corrosion spot heavily smoothed.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection.

Libertas was a prominent feature on the coinage of the assassins of Caesar, who designated themselves “liberatores”, those who freed Rome from the indignity of monarchial rule.