385, Lot: 443. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Pomponius Molo. 97 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.93 g, 1h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; L•POMPON• MOLO around / Numa Pompilius standing right, holding lituus before lighted altar, about to sacrifice a goat being held by victimarius; in exergue, [N]V(MA)•PO(MP)I[L]. Crawford 334/1; Sydenham 607; Pomponia 6; Type as RBW 1194. Good VF, toned, flan crack.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Hirsch Nachf. 298 (7 May 2014), lot 465; Triton XVII (6 January 2014), lot 521; Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.10531.

This is an unusual case of my disposing of a fine quality coin with an old provenance – acquired by the ANS before 1955 – as I had the recent good fortune to acquire an example from the collection of the Venetian librettist and classicist Apostolo Zeno – in Zeno's before 1750 – in its place. [A. McCabe]