The Republicans. C. Cassius Longinus. Spring 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.62 g, 6h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna; P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legatus. Diademed head of Libertas right; C • CAÍÍi • iÂp upward to left, LeiBerTAÍ upward to right / Capis and lituus; LeNTuLuÍ/ÍpiNT in two lines below. Crawford 500/3; CRI 221; Sydenham 1307; RSC 4; BMCRR East 77; Kestner 3767; RBW 1762. Iridescent tone, slight roughness, flan crack. Near EF.
From the 1930’s Collection of Robert W. Hubel of Michigan. Ex Baranowsky (25 February 1931), lot 1268.
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.
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