Zum Aureus mit dem Triumph des Pompeius

Abstract

Until Caesar's sole rule Rome struck gold only rarely and in small quantity. Within this group of occasional issues of the Sullan and Pompeian period, the date and place of an aureus surviving in only two specimens from different dies, in London and Bologna, are especially hotly disputed. The obverse shows the head of a woman wearing the elephant scalp, beside it an augur's staff and a sacrificial jug, with the legend MAGNVS inside a laurel wreath; the reverse a triumphator in a quadriga, a boy riding the lead horse, a Victory above and PRO COS in the exergue. The paper starts from the reverse, since it was good Republican practice to carry sons or close kin in the triumphal chariot.

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Suggested citation

Castritius, Helmut: Zum Aureus mit dem Triumph des Pompeius. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 21 (1971), pp. 25–35, Tf.4.

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