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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 24708094, member: 44316"]"Pompey Magnus lifetime portrait" Roman Provincial Coinage volume II has these Pompeioplois coins minted under Domitian. <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=2&number=&city_id=161&region_id=&province_id=&subprovince_id=&reign_id=&obverse_inscription_simplified=&reverse_inscription_simplified=&obverse_design=&reverse_design=&metal_id=&weight_min=&weight_max=&diameter_min=&diameter_max=&format=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=2&number=&city_id=161&region_id=&province_id=&subprovince_id=&reign_id=&obverse_inscription_simplified=&reverse_inscription_simplified=&obverse_design=&reverse_design=&metal_id=&weight_min=&weight_max=&diameter_min=&diameter_max=&format=" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=2&number=&city_id=161&region_id=&province_id=&subprovince_id=&reign_id=&obverse_inscription_simplified=&reverse_inscription_simplified=&obverse_design=&reverse_design=&metal_id=&weight_min=&weight_max=&diameter_min=&diameter_max=&format=</a> They are not minted in Pompey's lifetime. We often read that Julius Caesar was the first Roman to have portrait coins issued in his lifetime. [ATTACH=full]1578888[/ATTACH] Here is a portrait piece of Pompey, from Pompeiopolis under Domitian. I don't have my notes with me giving the details.[/QUOTE]