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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4871489, member: 85693"]Wow, that is a tough one to answer. In a pitiful effort to have something that is at least related to something on that spectacular list of beauties, here is my poor man's Sextus Pompey - it's one of my favorites: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1176399[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Sextus Pompey Denarius</b></p><p><b>(42-40 B.C.) Sicilian Mint</b></p><p>MAG•PIVS•IMP•ITER• , head of Pompey Magnus r. between lituus and capis / Neptune left, holding aplustre, foot on prow, with Anapias & Amphinomus, parents on shoulders, [PRÆF] above, CLAS•ET•O[RÆ] / [M]ARIT•E[X• S•C•]</p><p>(3.47 grams / 16 mm)</p><p>Crawford 511/3a; Pompeia 27;Sydenham 1344; BMCRR (Sicily) 7; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great); Sear CRI 334.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4871489, member: 85693"]Wow, that is a tough one to answer. In a pitiful effort to have something that is at least related to something on that spectacular list of beauties, here is my poor man's Sextus Pompey - it's one of my favorites: [ATTACH=full]1176399[/ATTACH] [B]Sextus Pompey Denarius (42-40 B.C.) Sicilian Mint[/B] MAG•PIVS•IMP•ITER• , head of Pompey Magnus r. between lituus and capis / Neptune left, holding aplustre, foot on prow, with Anapias & Amphinomus, parents on shoulders, [PRÆF] above, CLAS•ET•O[RÆ] / [M]ARIT•E[X• S•C•] (3.47 grams / 16 mm) Crawford 511/3a; Pompeia 27;Sydenham 1344; BMCRR (Sicily) 7; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great); Sear CRI 334.[/QUOTE]
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