My latest addition to my RR collection is this coin from the son of Pompey the Great, Sextus Pompey. This denarius has images of lighthouse (pharos), galley and the monster Scylla that all speak to his mastery of the seas. Homer describes Scylla in the Odyssey: "Inside it Scylla sits and yelps with a voice that you might take to be that of a young hound, but in truth she is a dreadful monster and no one — not even a god — could face her without being terror-struck. She has twelve misshapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems. No ship ever yet got past her without losing some men, for she shoots out all her heads at once, and carries off a man in each mouth." -Homer, Odyssey, Book XII This denarius, issued after 38 BC, is one that has been on my wishlist for a long time. My notes on this coin are here: https://www.sullacoins.com/post/sextus-pompey Post your coins with sea monsters, coins of Sextus Pompey, lighthouses or anything else that you find interesting or entertaining.
