CNG 108, Lot: 526. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.86 g, 6h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, commander of the fleet. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident to left, dolphin below / Galley with bank of rowers right, under full sail, helmsman steering rudder, hortator standing on prow; star to upper left. Crawford 483/2; CRI 235; Sydenham 1350; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great); RBW 1698. Good VF, light scratches beneath old tone, some striking weakness, banker’s mark on obverse.