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Long Beach Signature Sale 3057 7-8 Sep 2017
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Q. Sicinius and C. Coponius (49 BC). AR denarius (3.87 gm). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, brushed. Military mint traveling with Pompey the Great. Diademed head of Apollo right; below, star / Lion's skin draped over club between arrow and bow. Crawford 444/1a. Sear 3. Sydenham 939. Sicinia 1. Well-centered on a large flan, with gorgeous light iridescent toning.
From the Northern California Collection; ex Coin Galleries (10 November 1992), lot 243.
This attractive type was struck to help finance Pompey's campaigns after fleeing Rome when Caesar was marching on the city, and was most likely issued at Ephesus, from where it borrowed the club and lion's skin type from the fractional cistophori of Asia Minor. The S C found on the coins was an attempt at legitimacy, and may have had senatorial approval, although from senators who had also fled Rome along with the Pompeian faction.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 600-800 USD
Q. Sicinius and C. Coponius (49 BC). AR denarius (3.87 gm). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5, brushed. Military mint traveling with Pompey the Great. Diademed head of Apollo right; below, star / Lion's skin draped over club between arrow and bow. Crawford 444/1a. Sear 3. Sydenham 939. Sicinia 1. Well-centered on a large flan, with gorgeous light iridescent toning.
From the Northern California Collection; ex Coin Galleries (10 November 1992), lot 243.
This attractive type was struck to help finance Pompey's campaigns after fleeing Rome when Caesar was marching on the city, and was most likely issued at Ephesus, from where it borrowed the club and lion's skin type from the fractional cistophori of Asia Minor. The S C found on the coins was an attempt at legitimacy, and may have had senatorial approval, although from senators who had also fled Rome along with the Pompeian faction.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 600-800 USD