276, Lot: 352. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.37 g, 1h). Mint in Sicily (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, who carry their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Near VF, rough and porous surfaces, metal flaw on obverse, scrape on reverse.