Client of Pompey

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 40. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Southern Gaul. Allobroges. Cn. Pompeius Voluntilus. Circa 85-75 BC. AR Drachm (2.08 g, 12h). Laureate head left / Horse prancing left; VOL above, four-spoke wheel below. Van der Wielen 3d; Depeyrot, NC I, 76; CCCBM II 192-4. VF, lightly toned.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection.

Voluntilus was a chief of the Allobroges who attained his Roman citizenship from Pompey the Great, to whom he became a client.