Triton XVI, Lot: 880. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.87 g, 11h). Uncertain mint in Sicily, possibly Catania. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right; MAG • PIVS • IMP • [ITER] around / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre in right hand, resting right foot on prow, between the Catanaean brothers, Anapias and Amphinomus, carrying their parents on their shoulders; [PRÆF above]; in two lines in exergue, CLAS • ET • OR[Æ]/(MAR)IT • EX • S • [C]. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; Kestner 3783-4; BMCRR Sicily 7-10; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). EF, toned, areas of flat strike.

From the Chiltern Collection. Ex Tkalec (18 February 2002), lot 119.