Ex Mazzini Collection

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 606. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 45-44 BC. Æ As (16.02 g, 9h). Uncertain Spanish or Sicilian mint; Eppius, legate. MAGN above, [PIV]S • IM[P • F] below, laureate head of Janus / EPPIVS above, LEG below, prow of quinquereme right. Crawford 478/1b; Martini, Sextus, Em. II, Serie Biii, 145 (D6/R14) = S. Bourgey and G. Depeyrot, Collections numismatiques: La republique romaine, 429 = L. Laffranchi, “Gli assi di Sesto Pompeo coniati in Sicilia,” Bolletino del Circolo Numismatico Napoletano 2 (1917), 7/8 (obv./rev.) = CNR I 33/3 = Mazzini 2 (this coin); CRI 234a; Sydenham 1045a; BMCRR (Spain) 108; RPC I 487. Good VF, dark green patina.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Kunst und Münzen 18 (1 June 1978), lot 288; Mazzini Collection (Bourgey, 4 November 1913), lot 662.