Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 892. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 66 BC. AR Denarius (3.91 gm, 3h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right, wearing hair rolled back and in loose locks over forehead; flower or rosette before ear; scroll tied with cord behind / MVSA to left, Q. POMPONI to right, Clio, Muse of History, standing left, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, resting left elbow on column, and reading from an open scroll. Crawford 410/3; Sydenham 813; Kestner 3376; BMCRR Rome 3610; CNR Pomponia 17/10 (this coin); Pomponia 11. EF, toned, tiny obverse edge cut, minor deposits on reverse. ($1000)

From the Claude Collection.

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