Very Rare Pompey Issue

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 927. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great). 45-44 BC. AR Denarius (3.82 g, 12h). Spanish mint. Bare head right / Pietas standing left, holding [palm frond] and transverse sceptre. Crawford 477/1b; CRI 232a; Sydenham 1042; RSC 14; Triton X, lot 539 (same dies). Fine, deeply toned, light scrape on obverse, minor granularity; struck slightly off center as usual. Very rare.