171, Lot: 318. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.60 g). Uncertain Sicilian mint, possibly Catana. Bare head of Pompey the Great right between lituus and capis / Neptune standing left, 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). VF, toned, areas of flat strike.

From the Karl Sifferman Collection.