CNG 102, Lot: 814. Estimate $500. Sold for $680. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great). Spring 48 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.92 g, 10h). Uncertain Greek mint. Terentius Varro, pro quaestor. Diademed terminal bust of Jupiter Terminus right / Vertical scepter; to left, dolphin swimming right; to right, eagle standing left with wings folded. Crawford 447/1a; CRI 8; Sydenham 1033; RSC 3. Good VF, toned, hint of die rust, scrapes on eagle’s wing, slightly off center strike.

From the estate of Thomans Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny & Mosch 180 (12 October 2009), lot 313 (hammer €675).