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CNG 103, Lot: 650. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.61 g, 3h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, commander of the fleet. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident before, dolphin below / Galley with bank of rowers under sail to right, helmsman steering rudder, hortator standing on prow; star to upper left. Crawford 483/2; CRI 235; Sydenham 1350; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great); RBW 1698. VF, toned, bankers’ marks on obverse.


From the RBW Collection. Ex Kunst und Münzen XXIX (20 May 1993), lot 4.