| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 1240 Price realized: 360 GBP (Approx. 455 USD / 420 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: L. Cassius Longinus AR Denarius. Rome, 63 BC. Head of Vesta to left, wearing veil and diadem; kylix behind, control mark before / Voter standing to left, dropping tablet marked 'V' into cista on right; LONGIN•III•V downwards to right. Crawford 413/1; BMCRR Rome 3936; RSC Cassia 10. 3.90g, 20mm, 3h. Extremely Fine; beautiful cabinet tone. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 1031; Ex Alfred Franklin Collection, Baldwin's Auctions Ltd, Auction 99, 4 May 2016, lot 223. 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 as a measure to change the voting system to one of secret ballot. Estimate: 300 GBP |  |
