Sextus Pompey Aureus

CNG 108, Lot: 527. Estimate $20000. Sold for $21000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.84 g, 2h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Sextus Pompey right; MAG • PIVS • IMP • ITER; all within oak wreath / Bare heads of Pompey the Great right vis-à-vis Cnaeus Pompey Junior left; lituus to left, tripod to right, PRÆF above, CLAS • ET • ORÆ/ (MAR)IT • EX • S • C • in two lines below. Crawford 511/1; Evans O1/R1; CRI 332; Bahrfeldt 87; Calicó 71a (same obv. die); Sydenham 1346; BMCRR Sicily 13, pl. CXX, 9 (same dies); RBW 1783; Biaggi 48. VF, a number of marks and scuffs, a few edge scrapes, faint banker’s mark below portrait. Very rare.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex M. A. Armstrong Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1812; Berk 1 (23 March 1995), lot 201.