Watch List notes:

The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.85 g, 12h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right; MAG • PIVS • IM[P • 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; [C]LAS • ET • OR[Æ]/[(MAR)I]T • EX • S • [C] in two lines in exergue. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great); BMCRR Sicily 7-10; Kestner 3783-4; RBW 1785. Iridescent tone, some shallow scratches under tone. EF. Excellent portrait.

From the Thomas A. Palmer Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, May 1997.