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ROMAN REPUBLICAN COINS

Sextus Pompey, 42-38 BC. As (Bronze, 29 mm, 12.74 g, 11 h), uncertain Sicilian mint. MAGN Laureate, Janiform head with the features of Cn. Pompeius Magnus. Rev. PIVS / IMP Galley prow to right. Babelon (Pompeia) 20. Crawford 479/1. CRI 336. Sydenham 1044. With a splendid double-portrait of Pompey and a fine olive-green patina. Good very fine.

From the Molard Collection, Switzerland, acquired from Classical Numismatic Group in 2011, ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27, 12 May 2004, 274, Leu 33, 3 May 1983, 4, and Monnaies et Médailles 52, 19 June 1975, 482, and from the collection of W. Niggeler, 2, Bank Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 21 October 1966, 961, ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 152, December 1955, 25.
This is unquestionably one of the finest and most elegant of all the 'portrait' asses of Sextus Pompey. It bears a wonderful double-portrait of Pompey the Great, striking for both its strength and its authority.