Coin Reveals Ancient Rome’s Fight Against Voter Intimidation
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<p>This silver denarius, minted? <a href="
https://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-292.1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">over 2,000 years ago[/url], is hardly the most attractive Roman coin. And yet, the coin is vital evidence for the early stages of a political struggle that culminated in Caesar’s assassination and the fall of the Roman Republic.</p>
<p>I first encountered this coin while? <a href="
https://history.iastate.edu/directory/david-hollander/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">studying Roman history[/url]? in graduate school. Its unusual design gave me pause – this one depicted figures walking across a narrow bridge and dropping something into a box. I moved on after learning it depicted voting, reasoning that? <a href="
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06338" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Roman mint officials[/url]? occasionally made idiosyncratic choices.</p>
<p>But as voting access evolves in the U.S., the political importance of this centuries-old coin seems more compelling. It turns out that efforts to regulate voting access go way back.</p>
<h2>Roman Voting</h2>
<p>Voting was a core feature of the Roman Republic and a? <a href="
https://archive.org/details/worldofcitizenin0000nico" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">regular activity for politically active citizens[/url].? <a href="
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah18141" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Men, and only men[/url], could vote in multiple elections and legislative assemblies each year. So why would P. Licinius Nerva, the official responsible for this coin, choose to depict such a banal activity?</p>
<p>The answer lies in voting procedures that sometimes heavily favored elites.</p>
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