Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 891. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 66 BC. AR Denarius (3.70 gm, 4h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right, wearing hair rolled back and in loose locks over forehead; flower or rosette before ear; lyre key behind / Q. POMPONI to left, MVSA to right, Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, standing right, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, playing lyre which rests on column to right. Crawford 410/2b; Sydenham 812; Kestner 3375; BMCRR Rome 3608; CNR Pomponia 15/7 (this coin); Pomponia 10. Superb EF, attractive. ($1500)

From the Claude Collection.

See lot 888 for a note on the Muses coinage of Q. Pomponius Musa.