Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 860. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEXTUS POMPEY, son of Pompey the Great. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (3.91 gm). Uncertain Sicilian mint, possibly Catana. Bare head of Pompey the Great right between lituus and capis / Neptune left, foot on prow, between the brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, with their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). VF, good portrait of Pompey. ($750)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.