128, Lot: 272. Estimate $750. Sold for $505. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEXTUS POMPEIUS, son of Pompey the Great. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.73 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right / Neptune standing left, foot on prow, holding aplustre and chlamys; the brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions on either side, holding their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). VF, toned, slightly off center, rough.

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.