220, Lot: 419. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.58 g, 1h). 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). Near VF, old cabinet toning.