Triton XVII, Lot: 569. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.45 g, 1h). 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). VF, toned, shallow scratch on obverse.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22849.