228, Lot: 290. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sextus Pompey. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.26 g, 6h). Uncertain Sicilian mint, possibly Catana. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis behind, lituus before / Neptune standing left, holding aplustre and resting foot on prow between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, bearing their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great). Fair, toned with deposits.