178, Lot: 85. Estimate $150. Sold for $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.52 g). Uncertain Sicilian mint (Catana?). Bare head of Pompey the Great right; behind, capis (one-handled jug); before, lituus / 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; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Good Fine, toned, porous and corroded.