104, Lot: 156. Estimate $200. Sold for $208. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.87 gm). Laureate head of Apollo right; sceptre behind / Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, standing facing, head right, holding club in right hand, mask in left. Crawford 410/4; Sydenham 816; Pomponia 14. VF, nicely toned, obverse banker's mark on cheek.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Wayte Raymond (5-7 December 1977), lot 5.