111, Lot: 148. Estimate $150. Sold for $262. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SEXTUS POMPEY. 38-37 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.62 gm). Galley adorned with aquila, sceptre and trident before the Pharos of Messana, decorated with a statue of Neptune / The monster Scylla, her torso of dogs and fishes, wielding a rudder as a club. Crawford 511/4a; CRI 335; Sydenham 1348; RSC 2. Fine, toned.
Ex Frederick Hastings Rindge Collection II (Malter XXX, 7-8 June 1985), lot 1887.