Denarius of Marcus Porcius Laeca, 125 BC. The reverse picture Libertas in a chariot, holding a pileus, the symbol of freedom, a reference to the Lex Porcia passed in 199 BC by his ancestor.[1]
The gens Porcia, rarely written Portia, was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome. Its members first appear in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to achieve the consulship was Marcus Porcius Cato in 195 BC, and from then until imperial times, the Porcii regularly occupied the highest offices of the Roman state.[2]
^Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 293.
^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 498 ("Porcia Gens").
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