CNG 93, Lot: 1115. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.86 g, 12h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, praefectus classis. Head of Pompey the Great right; trident to right; below, dolphin right / Galley with bank of rowers right, under full sail, helmsman steering rudder, hortator standing on prow; star to upper left. Crawford 483/2; CRI 235; Sydenham 1350; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great). Near EF, toned, minor surface roughness.