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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Imperators| > |Pompeians| > SH79738
Roman Republic, Sextus Pompey, Imperator and Prefect of the Fleet, Executed 35 B.C.
|Pompeians|, |Roman| |Republic,| |Sextus| |Pompey,| |Imperator| |and| |Prefect| |of| |the| |Fleet,| |Executed| |35| |B.C.|, Struck in Sicily by Sextus Pompey, the younger son of Pompey the Great. Although Sextus Pompey 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, however, 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.
SH79738. Silver denarius, SRCV I 1391, RSC I 1a ( Pompeia 21), BMC Sicily 15, Sydenham 1347, Crawford 511/2b, S 1391, F, toned, Sicilian mint, weight 3.344g, maximum diameter 18.6mm, die axis 90o, 42 B.C.; obverse MAG PIVS IMP ITER, diademed head of Neptune right, trident behind; reverse PRÆF CLAS ET ORAE MARIT EX S C, naval trophy of captured arms placed on anchor, trophy made of trident, cuirass, helmet, stem of prow, apluster, and heads of Scylla and Charybdis; SOLD











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