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v34_0401 - POMPEY THE GREAT Denier

POMPEY THE GREAT Denier XF
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
Realised price : 750.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 755.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 44-43 AC.
Mint name / Town : Marseille ?
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait malgré l’usure. Joli revers bien détaillé. Une épaisse patine grise de collection ancienne recouvre l’exemplaire

Obverse


Obverse legend : NEPTVNI.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Pompée à droite ; devant un trident ; au-dessous, un dauphin nageant à droite.
Obverse translation : “Neptuni”, (de Neptune).

Reverse


Reverse legend : Q. NASIDIVS.
Reverse description : Galère voguant à droite avec voile avec seize rames, un gouvernail et une voile carénée.
Reverse translation : “Quintus Nasidius”, (Quintus Nasidius).

Commentary


Poids léger. Double frappe sur la légende. M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de 33 coins de droit et de 37 coins de revers. Seulement onze pièces, provenant des dépôts monétaires, ont été répertoriées par M. Crawford dans les dépôts d’Alvignano (6 ex.), d’Avvetrana (2 ex.), Vigatto (1 ex.), Terranova (2 ex.). Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente.

Historical background


POMPEY THE GREAT

(106-48 BC)

Consecration of Sextus Pompeius

Pompey, after Pharsalus, fled to Egypt where he was assassinated. This coinage is returned by his youngest son Sextus (67-35 BC) who continues the fight against Caesar after the death of his older brother at Munda in 45 BC. Reconciled with Antony in 44 BC J.-C., it receives a great military command and installs its headquarters in Marseilles before becoming commander of the fleet of the Republic the following year. At Octave's instigation, he was declared a public enemy and proscribed. He abandoned Marseilles in favor of Sicily where he crushed Octavian's fleet commanded by Quintus Salvidienus Rufus in 42 BC. He took the title of "son of Neptune" and assumed, like his father, the title of Pious. Reconciled with Octave, he was finally defeated by Agrippa at Nauloque on September 3, 36 BC. He managed to flee to Asia Minor, but was executed at the instigation of Marc Antoine.

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