Watch List notes:

Sextus Pompey AR Denarius. Uncertain mint in Sicily (Catania?), 42-40 BC. [MAG•PI]VS• IMP•I[TER], diademed and bearded head of Neptune right; trident over left shoulder / Naval trophy set on anchor, top of trident visible above helmet; the arms composed of the stem of a prow in right and aplustre in left; heads of Scylla and Charybdis at base; PR[AEF•CLAS•ET ORAE]•MARIT•EX•S•C around. Crawford 511/2a; CRI 333; BMCRR Sicily 15; RSC 1a; 3.93g, 20mm, 7h.

Near Mint State; attractive old cabinet tone.

From the Dr. Nicholas Lowe Collection;
Ex A. Tkalec AG, 18 February 2002, lot 118 (hammer: CHF 4,600).