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CNG 109, Lot: 564. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 42-38 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.45 g, 3h). Massilia (Marseilles) mint; Q. Nasidius, commander of the fleet. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident to right, dolphin below / 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); RBW 1698. VF, lightly toned. Well struck galley.


From the WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, February 1985.