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E-auction 85-43225 - brm_343521 - SEXTUS POMPEY Denier

SEXTUS POMPEY Denier VF
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Estimate : 175 €
Price : 83 €
Maximum bid : 90 €
End of the sale : 01 December 2014 16:09:30
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Denier
Date: c. 42 AC.
Mint name / Town : Catane
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,17 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, décentré sur les légendes, mais visible et identifiable. Usure importante. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
B.22 (Pompeia) - BMC/RR.18 (Sicily) - CRR.1348 (5) - RRC.511 /4a - RSC.2 a - RCV.1393 (1200$) - CRI.335 (1200$) - C.2 (30f.) - MRR.1559 (1000€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : (MA)G PIVS - I(MP) ITER.
Obverse description : Vue du port de Messine avec le phare, surmonté d’une statue de Neptune ; au premier plan, une galère passant à droite avec une aigle légionnaire, l’acrostolimum surmonté d’un thyrse.
Obverse translation : "Magnus pius imperatori iterum" (Pompée, le grand, pieux Imperator pour la deuxième fois).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PRAEF CLAS ET O-RAE (MAR)IT EX. S. C.
Reverse description : Le monstre marin Scylla s’emparant d’un gouvernail.
Reverse translation : "Praefectus classis et oræ maritimæ ex senatus consulto", (Préfet de la flotte et de la côte maritime par décret du Sénat).

Commentary

Poids léger. Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation inférieure à trente coins de droit et inférieure à trente-trois coins de revers pour trois variétés. Ce type est plus rare que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux.

Historical background

SEXTUS POMPEY

(67-35 BC)

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 the instigation of Octave, declared a public enemy, he is 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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