C CASSIUS LONGINUS SILVER DENARIUS – ISSUE OF LEGATE L SPINTHER WITH TRIPOD – MINT STATE NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERATORIAL COIN (Inv. 18982)

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18982. ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. CASSIUS, d. 42 BC.
Silver Denarius, 3.53 g, 18 mm. Issue of P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther as legate, struck at a military mint, perhaps Smyrna, from 42 BC.
Obv. C. CASSI IMP, tripod with cauldron (cortina) above. Rev. LENTVLVS / SPINT, capis and lituus.
Crawford 500/1; Sydenham 1308.
Ex Vilmar Numismatics FPL VI (Winter 2023), no. 71.
NGC graded MINT STATE, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, with golden iridescent highlights on the obverse. A historical coin as Cassius was one of the “Liberators,” the group of Romans who planned and carried out the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.