Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 468. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sex. Pompeius Fostlus. 137 BC. AR Denarius (3.96 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet ornamented with gryphon’s head, visor in three pieces and peaked, earring, and pearl necklace, hair falling in three locks; jug behind, X (mark of value) below chin / She-wolf standing right, head left, suckling twins (Romulus and Remus); behind, birds on fig tree; on left, shepherd standing right; SEX • PO [• FOST]LVS around, ROMA in exergue. Crawford 235/1c; Sydenham 461a; Kestner 2136; BMCRR Rome 927-8; Pompeia 1a. EF, toned, traces of under-type visible on obverse, trivial flan flaw on obverse.