408, Lot: 424. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.10 g, 12h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; behind, lyre key / Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, standing right, playing lyre set on column. Crawford 410/2b; Sydenham 812; Pomponia 10; Type as RBW –. VF, toned, some obverse find patina, reverse struck slightly off center.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Mike Vosper, COINEX 2015.