271, Lot: 32. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.88 g, 8h). Uncertain mint in Sicily. MAG · PIVS · IMP · ITER, bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right / Neptune standing left, holding apluster in right hand, resting right foot on prow, between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, carrying their parents on their shoulders; PRÆF above; CLAS · ET · ORÆ ·/(MAR)IT · EX · S · C in two lines in exergue. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). EF, lustrous.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 1257.