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Denarius Pomponia: Quintus Pomponius Musa, Q•POMPONI MVSA, Hercules
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 66 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | HERCVLES MVSARVM (Translation: Hercules of the Muses) |
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Quintus Pomponius Musa issued a celebrated series of ten denarii in 66 BC, each depicting one of the nine Muses alongside Hercules Musarum — the divine patron of the Muses adopted by Roman aristocratic culture partly through the influence of the Porticus Octaviae temple complex. The series is almost certainly a deliberate pun on the moneyer's own name, a practice Roman magistrates indulged with some frequency, though rarely with this degree of systematic elaboration across an entire issue.
RRC 410/1 anchors the Hercules piece as the opening type of the set.