279, Lot: 372. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; scepter behind / Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, standing right, wearing sword, holding club and mask. Crawford 410/4; Sydenham 816; Pomponia 14. VF, darkly toned, faint porosity, scratch in field before Apollo.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.