Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 621. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (3.70 g, 4h). Uncertain Sicilian mint (Catana?). MAG • PIVS • IMP • ITER, bare head of Pompey the Great right; behind, capis (one-handled jug); before, lituus / [PRÆF above], CLAS • ET • ORÆ •/MARIT • EX • S • C in two lines in exergue, Neptune standing left, holding aplustre in right hand, resting right foot on prow, between the brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, carrying their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; Kestner 3783-3784; BMCRR Sicily 7-12; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Good VF, toned, small flan crack, small areas of corrosion and deposits.

Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 718.