135, Lot: 94. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sex. Pompeius Fostlus. 137 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.95 g). Helmeted head of Roma right; jug behind / The shepard Faustulus discovering the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, birds on fig tree behind; PO instead of POM. Crawford 235/1b; Sydenham -; Pompeia 1b. VF, toned.

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin’s 42, 26 September 2005), lot 164 (part of); purchased private treaty from Spink, London, January, 1896.