Triton XVII, Lot: 568. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.98 g, 9h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, commander of the fleet. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident to right; below, dolphin right; NEPTVNI downwards to left / Galley with bank of rowers right, under full sail, helmsman steering rudder, hortator standing on prow; star to upper left; Q • NASIDIVS below. Crawford 483/2; CRI 235; Sydenham 1350; Kestner 3698; BMCRR Sicily 21-4; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great). EF, lightly toned, short hairline flan crack, reverse struck slightly off center.

Ex Tkalec (28 February 2013), lot 139 (12,000 CHF).