Euterpe — Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry

Triton XVII, Lot: 542. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.58 g, 9h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; two crossed tibiae to left / Euterpe, the Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing right, supporting her head with her left hand by resting her elbow on column, and holding two tibiae in right hand; Q • POMPONI downwards to left, MVSA downwards to right. Crawford 410/5; Sydenham 815; Kestner 3379-80; BMCRR Rome 3613; Pomponia 13; CNR 22. VF, toned, banker’s marks on obverse, shallow scratches under tone, edge tests, irregular edge.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22565.