Sale: Triton X, Lot: 550. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 40-39 BC. AR Denarius (3.80 g, 3h). Uncertain Sicilian mint (Catana?). MAG. PIVS IMP. ITER, bare head of Pompey the Great right; jug behind, lituus before / PRÆF. CLAS. ET. O[RÆ. M]ARIT. E[X. S. C.], 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; Kestner 3783-3784; BMCRR Sicily 7; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Near EF, wonderful cabinet toning.