Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Q. Pompeius Rufus AR Denarius. Rome, 54 BC. Head of Sulla right, SVLLA•COS before / Head of Q. Pompeius Rufus right, Q•POM•RVFI before, RVFVS•COS behind Crawford 434/1; RSC Pompeia 4 & Cornelia 48. 3.83g, 17mm, 2h.
Extremely Fine; light cabinet tone.
From the Dr. Nicholas Lowe Collection;
Ex Asta del Titano (San Marino), Auction 2, 6 June 1999, lot 119.
The moneyer for whom this issue struck, Q. Pompeius Rufus, was the grandson of the dictator Sulla. Bearing the only portrait of Sulla in the corpus of Roman numismatics, it is likely this is a good representation as, although struck posthumously, portraits of the famous ancestor would have survived.
Extremely Fine; light cabinet tone.
From the Dr. Nicholas Lowe Collection;
Ex Asta del Titano (San Marino), Auction 2, 6 June 1999, lot 119.
The moneyer for whom this issue struck, Q. Pompeius Rufus, was the grandson of the dictator Sulla. Bearing the only portrait of Sulla in the corpus of Roman numismatics, it is likely this is a good representation as, although struck posthumously, portraits of the famous ancestor would have survived.