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Auction 11 12 January 2014
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Q. Pompeius Rufus. Plated Denarius, 3.17g (4h). Rome, 54 BC. Obv: SVLLA COS Bare head right of the dictator Sulla, the moneyer's maternal grandfather. Rx: RVFVS COS Bare head right of Q. Pompeius Rufus, the moneyer's paternal grandfather. Crawford 434/1. Sydenham 908. Pompeia 4. Some breaks in surface. About EF
Ex Nancy Walsh Collection. Ex HJB 92, 11 September 1996, lot 223
Sulla and Rufus, the moneyer's two grandfathers, were consuls together in 88 BC. These are the first portaits to appear on Roman coins, and the only numismatic portrait of the famous Sulla, a precursor of Pompey, Caesar, and the Roman emperors
Ex Nancy Walsh Collection. Ex HJB 92, 11 September 1996, lot 223
Sulla and Rufus, the moneyer's two grandfathers, were consuls together in 88 BC. These are the first portaits to appear on Roman coins, and the only numismatic portrait of the famous Sulla, a precursor of Pompey, Caesar, and the Roman emperors