TYPE Roman Imperatorial, Sextus Pompey (43 - 36 BC), bronze as, struck in Sicily, 23.78g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Laureate head if Janus, with features of Pompey the Great ("Magnus"), 'MGN' above Rev: Prow of galley right, 'PIVS' above, 'IM[P]' below REFERENCE: Cr 479/1, S2K 1394, Vagi 37, Syd 1044 GRADING: VG+ / AF, green patina w/ sporadic encrustation and pitting, rare ORDER INFO: R2830, $115 A rare and celebrated type in lower grade but with discernible Pompeian features (on the right head) and other visible detail. Sextus Pompey was the younger son of the notorious first Triumvir, Pompey the Great - the famous general that spread Roman Republican power throughout all the Mediterranean, and latter-day failed adversary of his one-time colleague, Julius Caesar. Sextus and his elder brother Cnaeus Junior attempted to revive Pompeian power in the wake of their father's celebrated defeat at Pharsalus (the one prior to which the fateful Rubicon was crossed), but eventually were routed by Caesar at Mundus, in 45 BC. Unlike his brother, however, Sextus managed to escape, and in the commotion following Caesar's death the following year, even found revival in becoming "commander of the Mediterranean fleet" - only to eventually be defeated and put to death by the soon-to-be Augustus, Octavian.