Triton XIV, Lot: 601. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.54 g, 5h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis behind, lituus before; [M]AG • PIVS • IMP • ITER around / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre in right hand, resting right foot on prow, between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, carrying their parents on their shoulders; PR[ÆF above], CLAS • ET • OR[Æ •]/MARIT • EX • S • [C] in two lines in exergue. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; Kestner 3783-4; BMCRR Sicily 7-10; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Near EF, slightly iridescent, dark gray toning.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman.