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E-Auction 14  3-4 Oct 2020
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Lot 285

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Faustus Cornelius Sulla. Fourrée Denarius, 56 BC. D/ Diademed and draped bust of Diana right; above, crescent and behind, lituus. R/ Sulla seated left between on left, Bocchus king of Mauritania, and on right, Jugurtha king of Numidia, both kneeling. Cr. 426/1. B. 59. AR/AE. g. 3.03 mm. 19.00 R. Rare. About VF.

This moneyer was the son of the great dictator, and his types are in honour of his father. The reverse represents the submission of Bocchus and the surrender of Jugurtha. Faustus married Pompey's daughter. (D. R. Sear, RSC I, p.40).
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