Denarius Pomponia: Quintus Pomponius Musa, Q•POMPONI MVSA, Hercules

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.