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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 6794372, member: 86498&quot;]The guy with the lean and hungry look, C. Cassius Longinus Ar Denarius Military mint possibly Smyrna Obv Head of Libertas right diademed RvSacrificial implements CRI 221 Crawford 500/3 3.57 grms 18 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1272083[/ATTACH]The eminence grise of the whole &quot;liberator&quot; movement the position of Cassius is something of an anomaly. By rights he was the more experienced commander and had better connections in the east than did Brutus but it is the later which has the lions share of the coinage. Of course this might have something to do with the fact that Brutus had leant money to some of the cities in the east charging something like 48% interest leading one modern historian to comment that Brutus was a man of high principal and even higher interest<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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