CNG 87, Lot: 937. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. Æ As (29mm, 12.74 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Laureate head of Janus with the features of Cn. Pompeius Magnus / Prow of quinquereme right. Crawford 479/1; Martini, Sextus Pompeius, Em. III, Group 1, Serie D, 457 (D6/R75) = CNR 35/1 (this coin); CRI 336; Sydenham 1044; RPC 671. Good VF, attractive green patina. Great portrait coin for Pompey the Great.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27 (12 May 2004), lot 274; Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 4; Münzen und Medaillen AG 52 (19 June 1975), lot 482; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part 2, Leu & Münzen und Medaillen AG, 21 October 1966), lot 961; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 152 (December 1955), no. 35.