366, Lot: 742. Estimate $300. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.42 g, 3h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, commander of the fleet. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident to right; below, dolphin right / Galley with bank of rowers right, under full sail, helmsman steering rudder, hortator standing on prow; star to upper left. Crawford 483/2; CRI 235; Sydenham 1350; RSC 20 (Pompey the Great). Fine, toned, porous. Rare.