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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 4803745, member: 91461&quot;]Just won this lifetime portrait of one of my (Everybody&#039;s) favorite generals, Gnaeus Pompeius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166617[/ATTACH] </p><p>Better known as Pompey the great!</p><p>The real gobsmacker is that, much like Ptolemy XIV, I faced almost no opposition when he washed up on my shores... for 10 GBPs<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166599[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cilicia, Soli-Pompeiopolis. Pompey the Great. 1st century B.C. Æ (19 mm, 7.20 g, 12 h). Bare head of Pompey right / [ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟ]ΠΟΛЄΤΩΝ, Nike advancing right, holding wreath and palm; in right field, ΔΙ monogram. Cf. SNG BN 1213-7 (control); cf. SNG Levante 880-2 (same). Dark patina. Very fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>With any image of Pompey you have to ask, &quot;How on points his hair??&quot;</p><p>In my, for the price of a coke, fries and a burger, example, I gotta say, pretty on point!</p><p>Here&#039;s the, way before blow dryers and hair gel, original style all the Roman&#039;s tried to emulate (even if he was said to have lifted the style from the original great one, Alexander III):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166603[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And it certainly is an upgrade to my more expensive (obviously) non lifetime version made by his son:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166610[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sextus Pompey </p><p>Ӕ As. Spain or Sicily, 45 BC. Laureate head of Janus, with the features of Cn. Pompeius Magnus; [MGN] above / Prow right; [PIVS] above, IMP below. Crawford 479/1; CPP I 671. 19.23g, 28mm, </p><p>Fine.</p><p>Ex-Savoca</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot forgive this transgression against one of the greatest military commanders, and self advertisers, of all time. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166628[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I demand compensation in postings of other coins of Pompey, his son, stone cold deals that you found others sleeping on or whatever cuts off you enemies head and hands it to you on a silver platter![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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