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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1035. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.65 g, 4h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Diademed head of Neptune right; trident behind / Naval trophy with trident above set on anchor, holding prow and aplustre; heads of marine monsters Scylla and Charybdis at base. Crawford 511/2a; CRI 333; Sydenham 1347; RSC 1b. VF, a little porous, an area of minor smoothing behind head on obverse.


From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Hirsch 190 (8 May 1996), lot 596.