Triton XVI, Lot: 876. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. Æ As (28mm, 24.05 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. 3rd emission, Group 1, Series D. Laureate head of Janus, with the features resembling Pompey the Great; (MA) GN above / Prow of galley right; PIVS above; IMP in exergue. Crawford 479/1; Martini,
Sextus -; CRI 336; Sydenham 1044; Kestner 3679-80, 3682-3; BMCRR Spain 101. Good VF, brown patina, small metal flaw in left field on obverse. Well struck for issue.