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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8635978, member: 87809&quot;]My most recent win at CNG E-auction 524. I really wanted a coin with the portrait of Pompey the Great, and now I have this one issued by Sextus Pompey, the younger son of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.</p><p>In 43 BC, Sextus was honored by the Senate with the title &quot;Commander of the Fleet and Sea Coasts&quot; (<i>Praefectus Classis et Orae Maritimae</i>), found abbreviated on the reverse legend of this coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Denarius, Sicily, uncertain mint (Katane?), 37 -36 BC</p><p>17 mm, 3.69 g, 7h</p><p>Crawford 511/3a; Sear, HCRI 334; Sydenham 1344 (R4); BMCRR (Sicily) 7; Pompeia 27; RBW 1785; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great)</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Conti Collection. Don&#039;t know who Conti is..</p><p><br /></p><p>Some details are off-flan, but I think Pompeius head is very handsome and strong.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quote from Goethe’s Faust where Erichto speaks about the gruel night before the battle of Pharsalus:</p><p><br /></p><p>&lt;… Here, Magnus was dreaming… There, Caesar kept watch&gt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: <i>(MAG)•PIVS•IMP•ITER</i> bare head of Pompey the Great, facing right, flanked by capis (jug) at left and lituus at right</p><p>Rev.<i>: (PRA͡EF) </i>above <i>/CLAS•ET•</i> <i>ORA͡E /M͡A͡RIT•EX•S•C</i> in two lines; Neptune standing left with foot on prora (prow) and holding <i>aplustre </i>in r. hand and cloak over l. arm<i>,</i> between the Catanaean brothers, Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, each carrying a parent on their shoulders.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy CNG:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1516929[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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