CNG 102, Lot: 801. Estimate $400. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 4.04 g, 8h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; scepter to left / Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, standing right, wearing sword, holding club and mask. Crawford 410/4; Sydenham 816; Pomponia 14. Good VF, toned, areas of flate strike, some deposits on obverse.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny & Mosch 204 (5 March 2012), lot 1997.