Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1038. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (3.96 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis (jug) to left, lituus to right / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre and resting foot on prow, between the Catanaean brothers, Anapias and Amphinomus, who carry their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Good VF, handsome dark gray toning, slightly off-center strike.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Ponterio 47 (8 March 1991), lot 1409.