Saturday, August 10, 2019

Voting in Republican Rome

I picked up two coins this week to make a small set of RR coins with voting on them. I suspect that there are some control marks that involve voting. If I find some, I will post them.



Date
Moneyer
Obv
Rev
Crawford #







-126
C.CASSI
C. Cassius Longinus
Roma, voting urn behind
Libertas in quadriga, pileus
266.1
Top
L
-112
P·NERVA
P. Licinius Nerva
Roma holding shield & spear, crescent
Voting scene, three citizens in the comitium
292.1
Top R
-63
L CASSI LONGIN Lucius Cassius Longinus
Veiled head of Vesta
letters on obv spell   L CASSI
Voter dropping tablet marked V (TI ROGAS) into cista, on R
413.1
Btm
R
-55
Q CASSIVS VEST  
C. Cassius Longinus
Veiled head of Vesta
Temple of Vesta, inside curule chair, voting-urn left, ballot with A C on right
428.1
Btm
L











The coins above have been used as book covers.