Triton XVII, Lot: 571. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.91 g, 2h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right; MAG • PIVS • IMP • ITER around / Neptune, naked but for chlamys on left arm, holding aplustre and resting right foot on prow, standing left between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, bearing their parents on their shoulders; PRÆF above; CLAS • ET • OR[Æ]/(MAR)IT • EX • S [• C] in two lines in exergue. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; Kestner 3783-4; BMCRR Sicily 7-10; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Near EF, toned, hairline flan crack, small earthen deposit and a couple light scratches under tone on obverse. Well centered and struck.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.24888.