Watch List notes:

Sextus Pompey, † 35 BC. As (Bronze, 31 mm, 22.08 g, 1 h), uncertain mint in Sicily, circa 42-38. Laureate janiform head of Pompey 'the Great'. Rev. PIVS / [IMP] Prow of galley to right. Babelon (Pompeia) 20. Crawford 479/1. RBW 1675. Sydenham 1044. A lovely example with a dark olive-green patina. Minor flan crack, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Leu 7, 24-25 October 2020, 1531, from a Swiss collection and the collections of Richard Wiegand, Leu 2, 11 May 2018, 225 and Thomas B. Lesure, ex Classical Numismatic Group 32, 7 December 1994, 55.