Licinus, Porcius

4. L. Porcius Licinus, occurs only on coins, of which a specimen is given below. The obverse represents the head of Pallas, with L. PORCI LICI.; the reverse the naked figure of Mars driving a chariot and hurling a spear, with the legend L. LIC. CN. DOM. We have coins of the Aurelia and Cosconia gentes exactly the same as the preceding, with the sole exception of the difference of name, those of the former bearing the name of M. Aurelius Scaurus, and those of the latter L. Cosconius. [COSCONIUS; SCAURUS.] Now, as all the three sets of coins have on the obverse L. LIC. CN. DOM., it is supposed that they were struck in the censorship of L. Licinius Crassus and Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, B. C. 92, and that L. Porcius Licinus.. Aurelius Scaurus, and L. Cosconius, were triumvirs of the Mint in that year. Eckhel (vol. v. p. 196), however, thinks that these coins must have been struck at an earlier time; but on this point see Drumann, Gesch. Roms, vol. v. p. 95.