Cassia
Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate.CASSIA gens. - This Roman house, whose coins exist in thrity seven varieties, was at first patrician, afterwards plebeian.
Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus
Born: Date of Birth Unknown (Possibly born in Gaul)
Emperor: A.D. 260 - 269 ...
Cassianus Latinius
Postumus
Gallic Emperor
259-268
Commander of the Rhine legions, he rebelled in 259, ruling Gaul, Spain and Britain for nine years.
Whether Marcus Cassianus Latinius Postumus and his successors are considered usurpers against the legitimate Roman Emperor or the saviors of the Roman way of life against German encroachment is a matter of opinion.
RR309. Q. Cassius Longinus, 55 BC, AR Denarius. Young male head rt., sceptre over shoulder/Eagle on thunderbolt between lituus and jug, Q CASSIVS in exergue, RSC Cassia 7; Craw. 428/3. Centered, light tone, clear types, Very Fine....SOLD Photo ...
Note: The reverse commemorates a proposal by L. Cassius Ravilla in 137 BC for a method of voting which became the Lex Cassia Tabellaria.
with reverse figures were relief-less outlines, while in southern England bolder, fuller, high relief figures were more common. Similar "schools of art" exist for pieces produced in continental Europe. Barbarous radiate of Postumus Marcus Cassianius ...
Another coin, almost as common as those of Calpurnia, is of Lucius Cassius Longinus which makes reference to a method of voting (the Lex Cassia Tabellaria) which had been proposed by his ancestor Lucius Cassius Ravilla in 137 a.c.
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