VESTALIS - Vestal seated holding a simpulum. Obv: C CLODIVS C F (|Caius| Clodius Caii Filius), head of Flora to right, crowned with flowers; behind a flower (gold and silver). This coin was strcuk by |Caius| Clodius, who fought under Brutus, monetary quatuovir in 43 BC. The head of Flora recals the fetes instituted by Clodius Certho in 240 BC, which were probably made annual in 173 BC by C. Srvilius, whose son struck coins in 74-50 BC with the legend C SERVEIL C F FLORAL PRIMVS. The type of the Vestal recalls either Quinta Claudia (c. 212 BC), who, when a ship laden with things sacred to Cybele struck in the shallows of the Tiber, called upon the goddess to vindicate her innocence, and drew the vessel safe to shore; or the Vestal Virgin Caludia (143 BC) who, when her father Appius |Claudius| Pulcher resolved to have a triumph contrary to the will of the people, walked by his chariot to the Capitol, so that it might not be lawful for any of the tribunes to interfere and forbid it.