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brm_1100451 - SEXTUS POMPEY Denier

SEXTUS POMPEY Denier AU/XF
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Price : 450.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 42 AC.
Mint name / Town : Catane
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale et légèrement décentré. Jolie monnaie malgré des faiblesses. Patine grise aux légers reflets dorés et bleutés

Obverse


Obverse legend : MAG 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


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.
For this type, Mr. Crawford noted an estimate of fewer than thirty obverse dies and fewer 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.

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