CRI Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 620. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.88 g, 3h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. MAG • PIVS IMP ITER, diademed and bearded head of Neptune right; trident behind / [P]RÆF CLAS • ET • O-R-Æ MARIT • EX [S C], naval trophy set on anchor, top of trident visible above helmet; the arms composed of the stem of a prow in right and aplustre in left; heads of Scylla and Charybdis at base. Crawford 511/2a; CRI 333 (this coin illustrated); Sydenham 1347; Kestner 3782; BMCRR Sicily 15; RSC 1a. Near EF, toned. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXII (10 June 1993), lot 280.