Triton XIX, Lot: 405. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. L. Cornelius Lentulus and C. Claudius Marcellus. Summer 49 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.85 g, 4h). Military mint in the East. Triskeles, with winged head of Medusa facing at center; stalk of grain between each leg / Jupiter standing facing, head right, holding thunderbolt in right hand and eagle on left; LE(NT) (MAR) upward to left, COS upward to right. Crawford 445/1b; CRI 4; Sydenham 1029; Cornelia 64a; RBW 1562. EF, attractive cabinet tone, small mark near edge on obverse.

Ex Hess-Divo 314 (4 May 2009), lot 1434; Vinchon 7 (9 December 1983), lot 241; Joseph Martini Collection (R. Ratto, 24 February 1930), lot 548.