Clio – Muse of History

439, Lot: 441. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; volumen left / Clio, the Muse of History, standing left, holding and reading from an open scroll in right hand, resting left elbow on draped column. Crawford 410/3; Sydenham 813; Pomponia 11. Good VF, toned, faint hairlines.

From the Fay Beth Wedig Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions IX (7 December 1989), lot 307.