Lollia


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Lollia, a plebian family, having for its surname PALIKANVS. Its coins offer twelve varieties, two of which deserve note, viz., one a denarius with legend LIBERTATIS and head of Liberty, and the other inscribed HONORIS, with laureated head of Honor:

- LIBERTATIS, the head of Liberty / PALIKANVS, a portico, to the columns of which are affixed the beaks of ships, and on the top of which is placed a table. The foregoing is Eckhel 's description of the type. By Mionnet it is described as a bridge with several arches; a table above, and three galleys below.

The brass pieces of this family were struck in Cyrenaica, by L Lollius, one of the lieutenants of Augustus:

- HONORIS, a juvenile head laureated / PALIKANVS, a curule chair between two ears of corn.

The reverse of the first denarius exhibits the rostra Populi Romani, an appelation given to the suggestum, or elevated platform, constructed in the forvm, and adorned with the beaks of galleys captured from the Antiates. The type is regarded as referring to M. Lollius Palikanus, who, being tribune of the people in the year of Rome 684, succeeded, with the assistance of Pompey the Great, in restoring to the tribuneship its ancient power, of which Sylla had lef the shadow without the substance (See Tribunitia Potestas).

By the head of Liberty, therefore, the restoration of liberty to the Roman people is clearly indicated; whilst the rostra point to the place where the tribuni plebis were accustomed to speak on behalf of the assemblies of the people.

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