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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2684057, member: 84744&quot;]The history contained in this type is phenomenal.&nbsp; Awesome!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine, followed by the historical writeup currently in my database (could be somewhat plagiarized...):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]600550[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As consul for the year 88 BC, Sulla was awarded the coveted assignment of suppressing the revolt of Mithradates VI of Pontus, but political maneuvers resulted in this assignment being transferred to Marius. In response, Sulla turned his army on Rome, captured it, and reclaimed his command against Mithradates. His prosecution of the first Mithradatic War was successful, but he spared the Pontic king for personal gain. In 83 BC, Sulla returned to Italy as an outlaw, but he was able to win the support of many of the leading Romans. Within a year he fought his way to Rome, where he was elected dictator. It was during this campaign to Rome that this denarius was struck. The obverse type represents Sulla&#039;s claim to be acting in Rome&#039;s best interest. The reverse shows Sulla enjoying the highest honor to which a Roman could aspire, the celebration of a triumph at Rome.&nbsp; The moneyer, Lucius Manlius Torquatus, was a proquaestor serving under Sulla in the Mithridatic wars.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is an issue of one of Sulla&#039;s grandsons, Q. Pompeius Rufus, celebrating the memory of his illustrious but controversial grandfather in 54 BC:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]600553[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Quintus Pompeius Rufus was the grandson of Sulla through his daughter Cornelia Sulla.&nbsp; His grandfather was a supporter of Sulla, and shared the consulship with him in 88 BC.&nbsp; When civil war broke out the same year, Marius forced him out of the consulship, and his son (our Pompeius&#039;s father) was murdered by Marians.&nbsp; Sulla officially assigned Italy to Pompeius, but the latter was murdered after taking command of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo&#039;s troops.&nbsp; Thus our young Pompeius was deprived of both his father and grandfather the same year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pompeius was tribune of the plebs in 52 BC and although he was Caesar&#039;s brother in law (through his sister Pompeia), he supported Pompey in the civil war.&nbsp; The last instance in which the sources mention Pompeius is that in 51 BC his enemies spread false rumors that he had murdered Cicero on his way to Cilicia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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