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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1999169, member: 57495&quot;]Sadly, I don&#039;t have a coin of the Pompeians to show.&nbsp; Instead, here&#039;s one of Sulla, who as mentioned in the OP writeup, used Pompey to great effect during his second civil war against the Marians.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was struck in 82 BC by a mint travelling with Sulla in Italy as he was campaigning against Marius the Younger to make himself master of Rome.&nbsp; The year before that, 23-year old Pompey was married to Sulla&#039;s stepdaughter in an act sealing their alliance.&nbsp; Pompey&#039;s cold-bloodedness in doing away with the enemies that Sulla sent him against earned him the nickname <i>adulescens carnifex</i> (the young butcher).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]358120[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p><b>L. Manlius Torquatus and L. Cornelius Sulla</b></p><p>Denarius. 3.61g, 19mm.</p><p>Military mint moving in southern Italy with Sulla, 82 BC</p><p>Manlia 4, Crawford 367/5, Sydenham 757.&nbsp; </p><p>O: Helmeted head of Roma right, L. MANLI before, PRO. Q behind.</p><p>R: Sulla in triumphal quadriga right crowned by flying Victory, L. SVLLA IM in exergue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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