Denarius Mussidia: Lucius Mussidius Longus, L•MVSSIDIVS LONGVS

Lucius Mussidius Longus served as one of the four moneyers of the quattuorviri auro argento aere flando feriundo in 42 BC — the college of mint magistrates reconstituted by the triumvirs following Caesar's assassination. That year's coinage was produced under the shadow of the Second Triumvirate, with Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus consolidating control of Rome's financial apparatus ahead of the Philippi campaign. RRC 494 is among the most typologically varied issues of the late Republic, with Mussidius alone responsible for at least nine reverse types.