CNG - Sextus Pompey. Father's portrait. Fine+
$230 in March 2000


     Sextus Pompey. 40 BC. AR Denarius (3.62 gm). MAG. PIVS. IMP.
     ITER., bare head of Pompey the Great right between lituus and
     capis / Neptune left, foot on prow, between the brothers Anapias
     and Amphinomus, with their parents on their shoulders, [PRÆF]
     above, in exergue CLAS ET. ORÆ / MARIT EX. S.C. Crawford 511/3a;
     Sear 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Good Fine,
     obverse banker's marks. 719883

     Although this issue bears the portrait of Pompey the Great on the
     obverse, it belongs to Sextus Pompey, struck after his defeat of
     Q. Salvidienus Rufus when he was acclaimed imperator for the
     second time.