RR77515. Silver denarius, Buttrey Pietas Type 4 (6/D); Crawford 477/3a; Sydenham 1042a; Sear CRI 232b, RSC I Pompeia 13, gF, attractive old cabinet tone, banker's marks, light bumps and scratches, uncertain Hispania mint, weight 3.331g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 90
o, 45 - 44 B.C.; obverse SEX MAGN PIVS IMP SAL, bare head of Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) right; reverse Pietas standing left, palm branch in right hand, long scepter transverse in left hand, PIETAS downward on right; from the Andrew McCabe Collection; Roma Numismatics auction 23, lot 372; ex Gemini auction X (13 Jan 2013), lot 261; ex Randy Haviland Collection; ex Hans Schulman sale 30 (19 Nov 1960), lot 1322; ex Gibbs collection;
very rare;
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