| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 390 Price realized: 5,500 GBP (Approx. 6,967 USD / 6,415 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Q. Pompeius Rufus AR Denarius. Rome, 54 BC. Head of Sulla to right; SVLLA•COS downwards before / Head of Q. Pompeius Rufus to right; Q•POM•RVFI downwards before, RVFVS•COS downwards behind. Crawford 434/1; BMCRR Rome 3883; RSC Pompeia 4 & Cornelia 48. 4.07g, 19mm, 8h. Good Extremely Fine. This coin published in Richard Schaefer's Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP), binder 8, p. 122, available online at: http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b08#schaefer.rrdp.b08_0146; Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA, Auction 16, 14 November 2022, lot 50 (hammer: CHF 3,500); Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 15, 18 May 1999, lot 171. The moneyer for whom this issue struck, Q. Pompeius Rufus, was the grandson of the dictator Sulla. Bearing the only portrait of Sulla in the corpus of Roman numismatics, it is likely this is a good representation as, although struck posthumously, portraits of the famous ancestor would have survived. Estimate: 3000 GBP |  |
