429, Lot: 406. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT THEMES, Roman Republican. Gn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great). 106-48 BC. Æ Medal (32mm, 14.43 g, 12h). Roman Series: The Victory over the Pirates. By J. Dassier and sons. Dated 686 AUC (68 BC) [issued mid-18th century]. POMPEE, bare head right / Pompey standing left with his soldiers, receiving the defeated pirates kneeling right; in three lines in exergue, SURETE DE LA/NAVIGATION/A. R. 686. Catenacci pp. 88-9. Near EF, brown surfaces.

From the DMS Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 931921 (August 2012).

Jean Dassier’s series of medals illustrating Roman history consisted of 61 pieces, covering important individuals and events throughout Rome’s early history, from the city’s founding by Romulus, the rape of the Sabine women, and the rule of Numa Pompilius, to the fall of the Republic with the murder of Caesar, the second triumvirate, and rise of Augustus.