Watch List notes:

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.86 g, 11h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right, MAG • PIVS • IMP [• ITER] around / Neptune, naked but for chlamys on left arm, holding apluster and resting right foot on prow, standing left between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, bearing their parents on their shoulders; [PRÆF] above, CLAS • ET • OR[Æ]/(MAR)IT • EX • S • [C] in two lines in exergue. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great); BMCRR Sicily 7-10; RBW 1785. Deep old cabinet tone. EF. A wonderful portrait of Pompey the Great.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 102 (18 May 2016), lot 815; Chiltern Collection (Roma 7, 22 March 2014), lot 975; Tkalec (18 February 2002), lot 119; Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 430; Münzen und Medaillen AG 53 (29 November 1977), lot 227.