Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 968. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.88 g, 1h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Diademed head of Neptune right; trident behind / Naval trophy set on anchor, top of trident visible above, the arms composed of stem of prow and aplustre, heads of Scylla and Charybdis emanating below. Crawford 511/2b; CRI 333; Sydenham 1347; RSC 1a. VF, darkly toned.