C. Cassius C.f. Longinus was one of the moneyers for the year 126 BC. He is otherwise unknown.
Gens Cassia was a Roman family of great antiquity. The gens was originally patrician, but all of the members who appear in later times were plebeians. The first of the Cassii to obtain the consulship was Spurius Cassius Viscellinus, in 502 BC. He was the proposer of the first agrarian law, and was put to death by the patricians.
The Cassia gens was reckoned one of the noblest in Rome; and members of it are constantly mentioned under the Empire as well as during the Republic. The Roman road to Arretium was called the Via Cassia.
Gens Cassia was a Roman family of great antiquity. The gens was originally patrician, but all of the members who appear in later times were plebeians. The first of the Cassii to obtain the consulship was Spurius Cassius Viscellinus, in 502 BC. He was the proposer of the first agrarian law, and was put to death by the patricians.
The Cassia gens was reckoned one of the noblest in Rome; and members of it are constantly mentioned under the Empire as well as during the Republic. The Roman road to Arretium was called the Via Cassia.
Obverse: head of Roma right wearing winged helmet, urn behind; (XVI)
Reverse: Libertas in quadriga right holding pileus, scepter and reins; C·CASSI / ROMA
Diameter:
18 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.85 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.85 g
No notes for this coin
Crawford 266/1, Sydenham 502, BMCRR Rome 1032, RSC I Cassia 1, SRCV I 142