Roman Republican Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla

Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla [consul and censor] 60 BC.​

In his time, Ravilla proposed a new method of jury voting that established a form of secret ballot, known as the Lex Cassia Tabellaria. Jurors could mark their verdict on a small tablet and drop it into a basket to be counted by a court official. The practice also extended to voting on laws proposed in the Comitia Tributa and Concilium Plebis, the people's assemblies.



Combined with the coins obverse, this reverse alludes to the Trial of the Vestal Virgins of 113 BC conducted by a special commission, presided over by Ravilla. Three Vestals were accused of unchastity and condemned to death by being burried alive. The V on the tablet stands for VTI ROGAS [Uti Rogas], I approve.