Image: Pompey, aureus, 71 BC, RRC 402-1

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Description: Pompey, gold aureus, minted in Rome, 71 BC. Obverse : Head of Africa right, wearing elephant's skin; jug with handle to left on left; lituus on right; MAGNVS downwards behind. Laurel-wreath as border. Reverse : Pompey in triumphal quadriga right, holding branch in right hand; rider (Gnaeus Pompey) on near horse; flying Pompey in triumphal quadriga right, holding branch in right hand; rider (Gnaeus Pompey) on near horse; flying Victory with wreath above; PRO COS in exergue. Die-axis: 8 o'clock Weight: 8.94 grammes Source: Michael Crawford, The Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge University Press, 1974, pp. 412, 413.
Title: Pompey, aureus, 71 BC, RRC 402-1
Credit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1867-0101-584
Author: The Trustees of the British Museum
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