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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Imperators| > |Pompeians| > SH68395
Roman Republic, Sextus Pompey, Younger Son of Pompey the Great, Imperator and Prefect of the Fleet, 43 - 36 B.C.
|Pompeians|, |Roman| |Republic,| |Sextus| |Pompey,| |Younger| |Son| |of| |Pompey| |the| |Great,| |Imperator| |and| |Prefect| |of| |the| |Fleet,| |43| |-| |36| |B.C.|, Although Sextus Pompey, the younger son of Pompey the Great, was the supreme naval commander, Octavian had the Senate declare him a public enemy. He turned to piracy and came close to defeating Octavian. He was defeated by Marcus Agrippa at the naval battle of Naulochus on 3 September 36 B.C. and executed by order of Mark Antony in 35 B.C.
SH68395. Bronze as, Crawford 479/1, Sydenham 1044, RPC I 671, Sear CRI 366, Fair, Sicilian or Spanish mint, weight 18.242g, maximum diameter 31.2mm, die axis 180o, 43 - 36 B.C.; obverse MAGN (above, MA ligate), laureate head of Janus with the features of Cn. Pompeius Magnus; reverse prow of galley right, PIVS above, IMP below; SOLD




  






REFERENCES

Schaaff, Ulrich. Münzen der römischen Kaiserzeit mit Schiffsdarstellungen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum. (Munich, 2003).

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