279, Lot: 405. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. Æ As (30mm, 20.11 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. 3rd emission, Group I, Series D. Laureate head of Janus, with the features resembling Pompey the Great / Prow of galley right. Crawford 479/1; Martini,
Sextus 461 (D6/R79 [this coin, illustrated]); CRI 336; Sydenham 1044. VF, tan and green-brown surfaces, minor roughness, four natural pits on reverse.
From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.