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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2730452, member: 19463&quot;]Most Janus / prow asses bear generic faces but Sextus Pompey issued this variation with the features of his father, Pompey the Great.&nbsp; At least that is how the catalogs say it.&nbsp; On all I have seen the two faces are different enough that I wonder if one (left?) might have been intended to be Sextus.&nbsp; I have no idea of his true appearance but the right face does look like his father.&nbsp; Last I heard these are attributed to a mint in Sicily 43-35 BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]620671[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was cleaned by scratching away deposits a bit too roughly at reverse right and obverse left.&nbsp; At obverse top is MAGN (Magnus=great) with M and A ligate.&nbsp; At reverse top is PIVS but the IMP at bottom is too weak to see.&nbsp; Again it is a case of picking which faults you can tolerate.&nbsp; Such scratching might be called smoothing were it a bit smoother but here it seems a less deceptive form of &#039;excavating&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is my second coin of Sextus Pompey.&nbsp; I have shown the fourree denarius below several times.&nbsp; It also has the portrait of Magnus but really has few faults other than the big ugly one that goes with being a fourree. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]620673[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the place to pile on your Pompey portraits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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