The gens Pompeia was a plebeian family, but at the same time a consular family, which derived its name, it is said, from Pompeii, a town of Campania. Certain it is that it furnished the Republic of Rome with several illustrious citizens. The surnames of this family, as they appear on coins, are Faustulus, Magnus, Pius, Rufus.
AE As - Pompeia ( -45 )
Cr479_1, Syd 1044a - 12.8 grams
Obverse: MAGN above laureate janiform head with features of Pompey the Great
Reverse: PIVS above, IMP below, prow of galley right
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Cr471_1, Syd 1040 - 18 grams
Obverse: Laureate head of Janus, I above
Reverse: prow of galley right, CN MAG (MA in monogram) above, IMP below, I before
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