294, Lot: 579. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.95 g, 2h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, praefectus classis. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident before; below, dolphin right / Galley with seven rowers under full sail to right; helmsman steering rudder, hortator standing on prow; star to upper left. Crawford 483/2; CRI 235; Sydenham 1350; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great). Good Fine, toned, obverse struck slightly off center.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection.