97, Lot: 119. Estimate $300. Sold for $235. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.59 gm). Laureate head of Apollo right, flower on stalk behind behind / Terpischore, the Muse of Dancing, standing right, holding lyre and plectrum. Crawford 410/7d; Sydenham 820a; Pomponia 17a. Toned VF. 

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Spink America (7 December 1999), lot 775.

The coinage of Q. Pomponius Musa feature the nine muses and Hercules Musagetes. Hercules, as leader of the choir is shown playing a lyre, and the nine muses are shown with their various attributes. Q. Pomponius Musa is known only from his coins, and it can be assumed that his choice of the muses for his coins is intended as a reference to his cognomen.