Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3255. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 40-39 BC. AR Denarius (3.87 g, 6h). Uncertain Sicilian mint (Catana?). Bare head of Pompey the Great right; jug to left, lituus to right / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre, resting foot on prow, between the brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, carrying their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). VF, toned. Good metal quality.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.