In the Roman Republican period Marcus Valerius Laevinus introduced the "lex provinciae" in 210 BC, the law regulating cities in provinces. The specific version of this law for Sicily, the "Lex Rupilia", was completed after the First Servile War by the consul Publius Rupilius in 132 BC. All the Sicilian cities enjoyed a certain autonomy and issued small coins, but were divided into four legal and administrative classes: