421, Lot: 602. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.91 g, 5h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right / Neptune, naked but for chlamys on left arm, holding aplustre and resting right foot on prow, standing left between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, bearing their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great); RBW 1785. Good VF, deeply toned, flatly struck on portrait, light scratches on reverse.