CNG 105, Lot: 700. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.74 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; lyre-key (plectrum) behind / Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, standing right, playing lyre which rests on column to right. Crawford 410/2a; Sydenham 811; Pomponia 9. Good VF, toned, a few light scratches on obverse.

From the Collection of a Director. Ex Sotheby’s (1 December 1976), lot 246 (not photographed).