ROMAN REPUBLIC - ROMAN REPUBLIC Caius Cassius Longinus. Aureus with M. Aquinus ND (43-42 BC), Asia Minor itinerant workshop, Smyrna? Av. M. AQVINVS. LEG. LIBER-TAS. Head of Liberty, diademed, right. Rv. C. CASSI - IMP. Tripod lit. RRC.499/1 - Calicó 64; Gold - 8.08 g - 18 mm - 12 h From the "Monaco Collection". Well-centred and high relief strike. Only minimal marks on the rims and the edge (repaired setting?). With a golden patina. Superb to Fleur de coin. Caius Cassius Longinus, born around 87 BC, was quaestor to the proconsul Crassus, then tribune of the plebs in 49 and one of Pompey's lieutenants during Caesar's civil war. He benefited from Caesar's clemency after the battle of Pharsalus in 48, and was appointed praetor in 44. Along with Brutus, he was one of the ringleaders who assassinated Caesar. He then fled to Syria, while Brutus was in Macedonia. He joined forces with Brutus to fight the second triumvirate but was defeated at the first battle of Philippi in October 42, and, believing Brutus to be lost, asked his freedman to run him through with his sword.