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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3646283, member: 99456"]Unusually nice coins, the portrait on the "Q CASSIVS VEST" is particularly stunning. All have a great, "I've been tucked away in a cabinet for a while" look. I am curious to see the reverse of your "126, C.CASSI" (Correction: just found it in your attachments). Here's my "63, L CASSI LONGIN" -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]979210[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>L. Cassius Longinus</b>, moneyer, AR Denarius minted at Rome, 63 BC.</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Draped bust of Vesta veiled left, kylix behind, letter before</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Male figure left, dropping inscribed tablet into a cista</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 413/1; Syd. 935; Cassia 10</p><p><br /></p><p>Quite the family <a href="https://www.revolvy.com/page/Cassia-(gens)?cr=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.revolvy.com/page/Cassia-(gens)?cr=1" rel="nofollow">tree</a>:</p><p>L Cassius Longinus (moneyer) <b>brother of </b>one of Julius Caesar's assassins and <b>son of</b> Gaius Cassius Longinus Varus (consul of 73)<b> son of</b> L Cassius Longinus (consul of 107)<b> son</b> of L Cassius Longinus Ravilla (consul of 127)</p><p><br /></p><p>In 113 BC L Cassius Longinus Ravilla was special prosecutor in the case of three Vestal Virgins accused of violating their vows of chastity.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>Lucius Cassius [Longinus Ravila, consul 127, censor 125] was (as I have already often noted) a man of greatest severity. As often as he was a quaesitor in some trial in which inquiry was being made concerning the murder of a man he would advise and even instruct the jury as to what Cicero is now advising: that they should consider in whose interest (cui bono) it was that the man perish whose murder they were investigating. Because of this rectitude, on the occasion on which Sextus Peducaeus the tribune of the plebs [113] indicted Lucius [Caecilius] Metellus [Delmaticus] the Pontifex Maximus [from before 114 to 103] and the whole College of Pontiffs on the grounds of having improperly passed judgment [December 16 and 18, 114] on the chastity of the Vestal Virgins, because they had condemned only one, Aemilia, but exonerated the other two, Marcia and Licinia, the Populus appointed this Cassius to investigate the same Vestal Virgins. He condemned the two of them, and several others besides, with too great asperity (as people think).</i></font></p><p><font size="3">- <a href="http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/asconius.htm#32" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/asconius.htm#32" rel="nofollow">Asconius note 32 on Cicero's Pro Milone</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Lex Cassia tabellaria one of four laws replacing oral declaration with secret ballot:</p><ul> <li>139 BC<i> lex Gabinia tabellaria</i> : secret ballot for election of magistrates</li> <li>137 BC <i>lex Cassia tabellaria</i> : secret ballot for juries except in cases of treason</li> <li>131 BC <i>lex Papiria</i> : secret ballot in the passing of laws</li> <li>107 BC<i> lex Caelia</i> : secret ballot expanding Cassia to cases of treason</li> </ul><p>Several other coins for this theme (ACSearch links, not my coins)</p><p>- a coin of <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=265932" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=265932" rel="nofollow">C. Malleolus</a> 118 BC showing a voting tablet</p><p>- a coin of <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5621223" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5621223" rel="nofollow">C. Malleolus, A. Albinus, and L. Caecilius Metellus</a> 96 BC with voting tablet</p><p>- a coin of <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4955345" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4955345" rel="nofollow">L. Papius</a> 79 BC with a voting tablet and voting urn</p><p>- a coin of <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=100836" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=100836" rel="nofollow">C Piso Frugi </a>67 BC with voting tablet control mark</p><p>- a coin of <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2998524" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2998524" rel="nofollow">Caius Cœlius Caldus</a> 51 BC with a voting tablet[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3646283, member: 99456"]Unusually nice coins, the portrait on the "Q CASSIVS VEST" is particularly stunning. All have a great, "I've been tucked away in a cabinet for a while" look. I am curious to see the reverse of your "126, C.CASSI" (Correction: just found it in your attachments). Here's my "63, L CASSI LONGIN" - [ATTACH=full]979210[/ATTACH] [B]L. Cassius Longinus[/B], moneyer, AR Denarius minted at Rome, 63 BC. [B]Obv:[/B] Draped bust of Vesta veiled left, kylix behind, letter before [B]Rev:[/B] Male figure left, dropping inscribed tablet into a cista [B]Ref: [/B]Crawford 413/1; Syd. 935; Cassia 10 Quite the family [URL='https://www.revolvy.com/page/Cassia-(gens)?cr=1']tree[/URL]: L Cassius Longinus (moneyer) [B]brother of [/B]one of Julius Caesar's assassins and [B]son of[/B] Gaius Cassius Longinus Varus (consul of 73)[B] son of[/B] L Cassius Longinus (consul of 107)[B] son[/B] of L Cassius Longinus Ravilla (consul of 127) In 113 BC L Cassius Longinus Ravilla was special prosecutor in the case of three Vestal Virgins accused of violating their vows of chastity. [SIZE=3][I]Lucius Cassius [Longinus Ravila, consul 127, censor 125] was (as I have already often noted) a man of greatest severity. As often as he was a quaesitor in some trial in which inquiry was being made concerning the murder of a man he would advise and even instruct the jury as to what Cicero is now advising: that they should consider in whose interest (cui bono) it was that the man perish whose murder they were investigating. Because of this rectitude, on the occasion on which Sextus Peducaeus the tribune of the plebs [113] indicted Lucius [Caecilius] Metellus [Delmaticus] the Pontifex Maximus [from before 114 to 103] and the whole College of Pontiffs on the grounds of having improperly passed judgment [December 16 and 18, 114] on the chastity of the Vestal Virgins, because they had condemned only one, Aemilia, but exonerated the other two, Marcia and Licinia, the Populus appointed this Cassius to investigate the same Vestal Virgins. He condemned the two of them, and several others besides, with too great asperity (as people think).[/I] - [URL='http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/asconius.htm#32']Asconius note 32 on Cicero's Pro Milone[/URL][/SIZE] Lex Cassia tabellaria one of four laws replacing oral declaration with secret ballot: [LIST] [*]139 BC[I] lex Gabinia tabellaria[/I] : secret ballot for election of magistrates [*]137 BC [I]lex Cassia tabellaria[/I] : secret ballot for juries except in cases of treason [*]131 BC [I]lex Papiria[/I] : secret ballot in the passing of laws [*]107 BC[I] lex Caelia[/I] : secret ballot expanding Cassia to cases of treason [/LIST] Several other coins for this theme (ACSearch links, not my coins) - a coin of [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=265932']C. Malleolus[/URL] 118 BC showing a voting tablet - a coin of [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5621223']C. Malleolus, A. Albinus, and L. Caecilius Metellus[/URL] 96 BC with voting tablet - a coin of [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4955345']L. Papius[/URL] 79 BC with a voting tablet and voting urn - a coin of [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=100836']C Piso Frugi [/URL]67 BC with voting tablet control mark - a coin of [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2998524']Caius Cœlius Caldus[/URL] 51 BC with a voting tablet[/QUOTE]
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