Triton XIX, Lot: 407. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.74 g, 10h). 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; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great); RBW 1698. Good VF, toned, small banker’s mark on obverse.
Ex Ed Waddell Inventory C33547; Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 88, 23 November 1998), lot 746.