L. Cassius Longinus. 60 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.95 g, 6h). Rome mint. Near EF.

CNG Feature Auction 127
Lot: 432.
Closing Date: Sep 18 2024 11:00 ET

The Robert W. Hubel Collection, Assembled 1929-1939, Silver

Estimate: $ 400

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L. Cassius Longinus. 60 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.95 g, 6h). Rome mint. Veiled and draped bust of Vesta left; S (retrograde) to left, calix to right / Voter standing left, dropping tablet inscribed V (Uti rogas) into cista to left. Crawford 413/1; Sydenham 935; Cassia 10; RBW 1493 var. (control). Toned with iridescence, scratches, reverse die break. Near EF.

From the 1930’s Collection of Robert W. Hubel of Michigan, purchased from John G. Watson, April 1929.

Lucius Cassius Longinus was the brother of Gaius Cassius Longinus, later famous as one of Julius Caesar’s principal assassins. He was elected as one of the tresviri monetales for 60 BC; the types he chose allude to one of the family’s illustrious ancestors, L. Cassius Ravilla, Consul in 127 BC, who proposed a new method of jury voting by secret ballot. Known as the Lex Cassia Tabellaria, it provided that in most court cases tried by jury, jurors could mark their verdict on a small tablet and drop it into a basket to be counted by a court official. The practice was also extended to voting on laws in the people’s assemblies, the Comitia Tributa and the Concilium Plebis. This reverse type commemorates that proposal becoming law. The V on the tablet stands for VTI ROGAS, "I approve" of the proposed law.

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