Back 1/1
v52_0407 - SEXTUS POMPEY Denier
MONNAIES 52 (2012)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 42 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Catane
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, décentré sur les légendes, mais visible et identifiable. Joli droit. Revers un peu brouillé, en particulier en bordure de flan. Patine grise de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 49, n° 519 et de la collection D
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 : PRA[EF CLAS ET O-RAE (MAR)IT E]X. 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
Début de coin bouché perceptilble au revers. 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.
The beginning of a blocked die is visible on the reverse. For this type, Mr. Crawford noted an estimate of less than thirty obverse dies and less than thirty-three reverse dies for three varieties. This type is rarer than general works suggest.
The beginning of a blocked die is visible on the reverse. For this type, Mr. Crawford noted an estimate of less than thirty obverse dies and less than thirty-three reverse dies for three varieties. This type is rarer than general works suggest.
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Potin à l’aigle de face et à la tête casqu
130.00 €
MYSIA – LAMPSAKOS / LAMPSACUS Obole XF
100.00 €
1 centime Daniel-Dupuis 1909 Paris F.105/11 MS65 PCGS
391.00 €
Un centime Napoléon III, tête laurée 1862 Paris F.103/4 MS63 PCGS
30.00 €
GIBRALTAR 14 Ecus Proof Elisabeth II / Arc de Triomphe et tête de Cérès 1995
30.00 €
BHUTAN 5 Sertums Proof 40e anniversaire de l’accession du roi Jigme Wangchuck
1875.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
