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Denarius of Q. Pomponius Musa
Roman
Republican Period
66 B.C.
Mint: Rome
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Weight: 3.91 gm
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number2017.1365
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
DescriptionObverse: profile bust of Apollo, legend: Q. POMPONI MUSA
Reverse: Herakles (with lionskin and club) playing the lyre; legend: HERCULES MUSARUM
Reverse: Herakles (with lionskin and club) playing the lyre; legend: HERCULES MUSARUM
ProvenanceBy 1949, Count Alessandro Magnaguti (b. 1887 – d. 1966), Mantua; January 1, 1949, Magnaguti sale, part II, P. and P. Santamaria, Rome, lot 206. May 18, 1999, anonymous sale, Numismatica Ars Classica, Zurich (auction 15), lot 136, to an anonymous collector; May 29, 2017, anonymous sale, Numismatica Ars Classica, Zurich (auction 100), lot 305, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 2017)