TVSCVL. Tusculum. This legend appears on gold and silver coins of the highest rarity, belonging to the Sulpicia family. It is inscribed on the reverse over the gates of a walled and turreted city. (See Sulpicia). On the obverse are the heads of the Dioscuri, whose attributes and worship are plainly bespoken, and the above described type of the reverse, connecting itself with the same deification, bears reference to Servius Sulpicius, a tribune of the people, who in the year V.C. 878, invested with consular power, went to Rome, at the head of an army, to the relief of Tusculum, which city he rescued from the power of the Latins, who had laid seige to it,
It appears from Cicero, that the temple of Castor and Pollux stood at Tusculum; and, according also to Festus, Castor was worshipped in that town. Thus we find not only the chief deities of the Tusculanei, but the city of Tusculum itself represented on this extremely rare gold coin.