219, Lot: 407. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Sicinius and C. Coponius. 49 BC. AR Denarius (16mm, 3.97 g, 6h). Military mint moving with Pompey. Diademed head of Apollo right; star below / Club of Hercules surmounted by lion skin; arrow to left, bow to right. Crawford 444/1a; CRI 3; Sydenham 939; Sicinia 1. VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse.

From the Jörg Müller Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 130 (8 March 2004), lot 1960.

This was part of an issue of coinage by two supporters of Pompey who had fled Rome on Caesar's approach to the city. The S C on the reverse was an attempt to show legitimacy for the coinage via the senate, but this could only apply to those Pompeian senators who had also fled Rome.