Taten des Pompeius auf den Münzen

Abstract

What the coins of the Roman Republic present in image and legend clearly mirrors the path from the Republican constitution to the rule of a single man. At first the denarii name only Roma, the state as a whole, and so express the subordination of individual interests. From the end of the second century BC the claims to power of the noble families break into the coin designs and drive Roma out; the coins then have room almost only for family cults, the great deeds of ancestors and descent from gods and kings. Then, with the men who reach for monarchic power, proclamations of present deeds appear. Sulla opens the series and Pompey and Caesar follow; for Caesar this has long been recognised, for Pompey not to the same degree.

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Suggested citation

Kraft, Konrad: Taten des Pompeius auf den Münzen. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 18 (1968), pp. 7–24, Tf.1.

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