GENS SERVILIA

P Servilius Mf Rullus Denarius. 100 BC. Bust of Minerva left, wearing crested helmet and aegis, RVLLI behind / Victory in biga right holding palm, P below horses, P SERVILI M F in ex.

Beautiful new coin added to the "Republic" collection...

Joannus dixit.
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"SERVILIA GENS, originally patrician, but subsequently plebeian also. The Servilia gens was one of the Alban houses removed to Rome by Tullus Hostilius, and enrolled by him among the patricians (Liv. i. 30.) It was, consequently, one of the minores gentes.

The Servilia gens was very celebrated during the early ages of the republic, and the names of few gentes appear more frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. It continued to produce men of influence in the state down to the latest times of the republic, and even in the imperial period. The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was P. Servilius Priscus Structus, in b. c. 495, and the last of the name who appears in the consular Fasti is Q. Servilius Silanus, in A. d. 189, thus occupying a prominent position in the Roman state for nearly seven hundred years.

The Servilii were divided into numerous families ; of these the names in the republican period are : — ahala, axilla,caepio, casca, geminus, glaucia, globulcjs, priscus (with the agnomen Fidenas), rullus, structus, tucca, vatia.

RULLUS, P. SERVILIUS, tribune of the plebs, b. c. 63, proposed an agrarian law, which Cicero attacked in three orations which have come down to us. We know scarcely any thing of the family or the life of Rullus." (source - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Doug Smith)