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ROMAN COINS

Sextus Pompey, Denarius (Silver, 16mm, 3.53 g 10), military mint in Sicily, 42-40 BC. MAG.PIVS.IMP.ITER Bare head of Cn. Pompeius Magnus to right; behind, jug; before, lituus. Rev. PRAEF / CLAS.ET.O[RAE / MARI]T.EX.[S.C] Neptune standing left, holding aplustre in his hand and with his right foot on a prow; to left and right, one of the Catanaean brothers bearing his parent on his shoulders. Crawford 511/3a. CRI 334. Sydenham 1344. Very attractively toned, and with a splendid portrait of Pompey the Great and a perfectly centered reverse type. Extremely fine.