Q. Pompeius Rufus AR Denarius. Rome, 54 BC. Head of Sulla to right; SVLLA•COS downwards before / Head of Q. Pompeius Rufus to right; Q•POM•RVFI downwards before, RVFVS•COS downwards behind. Crawford 434/1; BMCRR Rome 3883; RSC Pompeia 4 & Cornelia 48. 4.01g, 18mm, 2h.

Extremely Fine; light cabinet tone and impressive portraits.

From a private European collection.

The moneyer for whom this issue struck, Q. Pompeius Rufus, was the grandson of the dictator Sulla. Bearing the only portrait of Sulla in the corpus of Roman numismatics, it is likely this is a good representation as, although struck posthumously, portraits of the famous ancestor would have survived.