381, Lot: 389. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.03 g, 8h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; tortoise to left / Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance, standing right, holding plectrum and lyre. Crawford 410/7a; Sydenham 819a; Pomponia 18a. VF, old cabinet tone, some cleaning marks on obverse under tone, areas of roughness on reverse.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind, purchased from Hans Schulman, November 1958.