Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 969. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (3.92 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint, possibly Catana. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis behind, lituus before / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre and resting foot on prow between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, bearing their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). VF, toned. Bold portrait of Pompey.

Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 64, 24 September 2003), lot 860.