Denarius Cassia: Quintus Cassius Longinus, Q•CASSIVS

Quintus Cassius Longinus issued this denarius as moneyer in 55 BC, the same year his relative Lucius Cassius Longinus was serving as tribune — a period of acute political tension during Caesar and Pompey's dominance of Roman public life. The gens Cassia had long cultivated a reputation for popular politics, and the type was almost certainly calculated to reinforce that association. Quintus himself later served as Caesar's quaestor in Further Spain, where his administration became so brutal and corrupt that his own troops mutinied against him in 48 BC.