225, Lot: 319. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Cassius Longinus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.61 g, 6h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna. P. Lentulus Spinther, legate. Veiled, diademed, and draped bust of Libertas right / Jug and lituus. Crawford 500/5; CRI 223; Sydenham 1305; RSC 6. VF, some porosity.

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.