Two Very Rare Pompey the Great Denarii

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 539. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great). 45-44 BC. AR Denarius (3.93 g, 1h). Spanish mint. SEX. MA[GN] IMP [SAL], bare head right / PIETAS, Pietas standing left, holding palm frond in right hand, transverse scepter in left. Crawford 477/1b; CRI 232a; Sydenham 1042; Kestner -; BMCRR Spain 93; RSC 14. VF, toned, minor porosity, a tiny dig behind ear, faint scrape from eyebrow toward edge at 1 o’clock, short die break from eyebrow into right field. Very rare.