Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 809. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 40-39 BC. AR Denarius (3.69 g, 3h). Uncertain Sicilian mint, possibly Catana. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; jug behind, lituus before / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre, resting foot on prow, between the brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, carrying their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). EF, light gray and delicate peach iridescent toning, faint scratch on obverse, slightly flat strike in centers, off-center obverse strike.

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.