Euterpe – Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry
439, Lot: 443. Estimate $300. Sold for $356. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.07 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; [two crossed tibiae behind] / Euterpe, the Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry, wearing long flowing tunic and peplum, standing right, leaning head on hand and holding two tibiae. Crawford 410/5; Sydenham 815; Pomponia 13. Good VF, toned, struck off center.
From the Fay Beth Wedig Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions V (9 December 1988), lot 292.