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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 7704919, member: 82549&quot;]I just received this coin in the mail yesterday. It&#039;s from Roma eAuction 84:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321992[/ATTACH] </p><p><u>Sextus Pompey</u></p><p>AE As</p><p>Sicilian mint, Ca. 42-38 B.C.</p><p>Obv: MAGN (lignate) – Laurate head of Janus in the image of Pompey the Great</p><p>Rev: PIVS - Prow of galley; IMP below</p><p>Crawford 479/1</p><p>RPC I 671</p><p>31mm, 15.6g</p><p><br /></p><p>There are scratches on the faces on the obverse, hard to see in the photo, but clearer in hand. (Can you believe I took a photo that makes surfaces scratches <i>harder</i> to see? I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever done that before.) Since the faces are assumed to depict Pompey the Great, father of Sextus Pompey, I wonder if they were a deliberate attempt to mar the image as a sort of damnatio memoriae. Perhaps they were made after Sextus was captured and executed by Aggrippa. Any thoughts?</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post any other D.M. coins or coins from this turbulent era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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