Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 486. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (4.04 g, 2h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right, wearing hair rolled back and in loose locks over forehead; flower or rosette before ear, wreath behind / Polyhymnia, the Muse of Rhetoric, standing facing in pensive mood, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum; Q • POMPONI MVSA in field. Crawford 410/10a; Sydenham 817; Kestner 3389; BMCRR Rome 3617; Pomponia 15. EF.