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264, Lot: 336. Estimate $200.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sex. Pompeius Fostlus. 137 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.84 g, 1h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; jug behind, X (mark of value) below chin / She-wolf standing right, head left, suckling twins (Romulus and Remus); behind, birds on fig tree; to left, shepherd standing right. Crawford 235/1c; Sydenham 461a; Pompeia 1a. Good VF, ragged edge as often encountered for issue.


The reverse alludes to the families descent from Faustulus, the shepherd who discovered Remus and Romulus being suckled by the she-wolf on the Palatine Hill and afterwards raised the twins with his wife.